Public Transportation: Survey of Project Sponsors on Their Transit Projects and Experience with the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts and Small Starts Programs

This document presents selected results of GAO’s Web-based survey of 215 project sponsors to obtain information on the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) funding of transit projects nationwide. The questions in GAO's survey were posed to obtain information on project sponsors’ completed, ongoing, and planned transit projects and also their experiences with the New Starts and Small Starts programs. The survey was e-mailed to projects sponsors (including transit agencies, city transportation offices, and metropolitan planning organizations, among others) in urbanized areas with populations of over 200,000 and that have an annual ridership on their transit systems of over 1 million. Of the 215 project sponsors, 168 project sponsors responded to the survey, for a survey response rate of 78 percent. GAO does not include responses for all survey questions. Specifically, this document does not include narrative responses that GAO received.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/gao-07-927sp/index.html
• Corporate Authors:

  U.S. Government Accountability Office

  441 G Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20548
• Publication Date: 2007-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: E-supplement
• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Financing; Metropolitan areas; Metropolitan planning organizations; Programming (Planning); Ridership; Surveys; Transit operating agencies; Transportation departments; Urban areas
• Identifier Terms: New Starts Program; Small Starts Program; U.S. Federal Transit Administration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transit projects
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Finance; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01055538
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: GAO-07-927SP
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 23 2007 1:01PM