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Title:

IMPACTS OF FEDERAL GRANT REQUIREMENTS ON TRANSIT AGENCIES

Accession Number:

00371045

Record Type:

Monograph

Availability:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/07324839

Abstract:

The research results in this report will be useful to transit agencies, Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO's), UMTA, and legislators in complying with and revising federal capital grant requirements for transit rolling stock and maintenance facilities. Grantsmen and planners for transit agencies and MPO's will find of interest recommendations concerned with consolidating and streamlining documentation and procedural requirements. Officials with the Urban Mass Transportation Administration will find of interest recommendations to streamline award procedures and ideas for legislators drafting legislation. The costs and effects of federal grant requirements have been of increasing concern to transit agencies. One area of particular concern has been UMTA's Section 3 discretionary capital funding program. This report reviews the Section 3 grant application process and the impacts of transit agency compliance with promulgated regulations, administrative policies, and issued guidelines. Based on a survey of transit operator experience, impacts have been defined to include direct levels of effort; delays in project implementation; inflationary cost escalation, and a loss of management flexibility. Recommendations are presented in the report for streamlining the grant application procedure and document, and for improving coordination among participant agencies.

Supplemental Notes:

Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Kret, E H
Mundle, S

Pagination:

73 p.

Publication Date:

1982-12

Serial:

NCTRP Report

Issue Number: 2
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0732-4839

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Appendices (4) ; Figures; References (8) ; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Rehabilitation; Requirement

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Finance; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities; I10: Economics and Administration

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Apr 29 1983 12:00AM