The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) notes that over the last decade, commuter rail systems have experienced increased ridership that closely matches the increases in gasoline prices. FTA also identified highway congestion and environmental concerns as other factors that have helped to boost ridership. As a result of these and other factors, so
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This study offers a combination of considerations and evaluation tools pertaining to relevant means of capacity improvements (technology, operations, route, and vehicle upgrades), both conventional and emerging. Guidance regarding the economics is offered to help balance the mix to minimize cost of achieving the level of capacity improvement requir
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To advance transit asset management, this guide provides a transit-specific asset management framework for managing assets indi-vidually and as a portfolio of assets that comprise an integrated system. The guide provides flexible, yet targeted guidance to advance the practice and implementation of transit asset management. Objectives: Explain what
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This report documents the results completed by the Center for Energy, Transportation and the Environment (CETE) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) under Federal Transit Administration Cooperative Agreement TN-26-7034. This research has addressed the limited range of electric shuttle buses by two different methods: first, by wayside
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This report summarizes the results of a 13-month effort by CodeRed Business Solutions (CRBS) to consider how urban rail transit agencies can leverage data within their maintenance management systems to build asset inventories for higher-level analysis. The research goal/requirement was to provide FTA with a plan or road map for transit agencies to
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Zero-sulfur diesel fuel of the highest quality, the fuel used in this project, can be made by Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis from many non-petroleum resources, including natural gas, which is increasingly abundant in the United States. Zero-sulfur FT diesel fuel can upgrade, and more-than-proportionally increase the supply of, conventional ultra-lo
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Automation Alley, Altair, and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), in a public-private partnership, teamed up to advance a new transit bus initiative that would improve America’s local and regional transit systems while requiring no infrastructure upgrades to operate. The goal was to develop a significantly lighter-weight, heavy-duty bus desig
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The final report for the Model Orlando Regionally Efficient Travel Management Coordination Center (MORE TMCC) presents the details of the 2½-year process of the partial deployment of the original MORE TMCC design created in Phase I of this project. The purpose of Phase II was to deploy certain modules of the original design, given the limited fundi
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The development of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems is relatively recent in the U.S.; however, several systems are operating and many more are being planned. A comprehensive understanding of the relationship between land uses and BRT systems is needed, particularly in comparison to other fixed-guideway modes such as rail. This report describes an ef
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This report summarizes the experience and early results from a fuel cell bus demonstration funded by the Federal Transit Administra-tion (FTA) under the National Fuel Cell Bus Program (NFCBP). A team led by the Northeast Advanced Vehicle Consortium and UTC Power developed a next-generation fuel cell electric bus for demonstration. A total of four b
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The purpose of this report is to provide an overview and preliminary analysis of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration’s TIGGER Program. TIGGER, which stands for Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction, provides capital funds to transit agencies for projects that would reduce the agency’s energy u
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Statistical Summaries provide information about the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) financial investment programs funded through ARRA. This report covers the Urbanized Area Formula Program and the Non-Urbanized Area Formula and Capital Program. The Capital Program is further broken into two c
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The purpose of this effort was to foster a dialogue among peers at transportation and planning agencies about their experiences with promoting public transit and, in particular, the challenges they face related to Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects, as well as the solutions they have developed in response. Agencies from dozens of large cities around
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The objective of this project was to further develop low cost carbon fiber for a variety of potential applications. Manufacturing feasi-bility of low cost carbon fibers/composites has been demonstrated. A number of technologies that are currently using other synthetic fibers may use high strength lightweight and low cost carbon fibers to reduce wei
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Prepared by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Office of Research, Demonstration, and Innovation (TRI), this report summarizes the accomplishments of fuel-cell-transit-bus-related research and demonstrations projects supported by FTA through 2011. It catalogs fuel cell electric bus research projects in the United States and describes their im
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The purpose of the FTA Construction Project Management Handbook is to provide guidelines for use by public transit agencies (Agencies) undertaking substantial construction projects, either for the first time or with little prior experience with construction project management. It provides a comprehensive introduction to construction project managem
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This report documents the evolution, development, and lessons learned while attempting to identify, modify, and deploy Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) and advanced technology tools to facilitate coordination of public transit and social (human) service transportation and mobility management in a “one stop shop” located in Modoc County (nort
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Using a real-life setting, WalkBoston’s project focused on developing and testing techniques to broaden the scope and range of public participation in transportation planning in a large neighborhood in Boston. The team explored methods of seeking out and talking with people who are seldom involved in the formal planning processes. The goal was to e
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Statistically, light rail transit (LRT) systems have higher injury rates on a per‐passenger‐mile basis than heavy rail and commuter rail systems, because in most cities, light rail vehicles (LRVs) operate on city streets. Passenger safety is dependent on the configuration and severity of the accident, as well as the degree of crashworthiness engine
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