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The News Releases collection includes digitized news items produced by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The scope covers historic news releases from 1961 to 2010. Bookmark this collection: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_nrn OR https://doi.org/10.21949/1530063 .

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  • UMTA Technical Assistance Aids Transit Operators
    UMTA Technical Assistance Aids Transit Operators
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1982-05-20 | PDF
    Two reports designed to assist transit operators in financial planning and budgeting, were released today by the Urban Mass Transportation Administration.
  • UMTA Announces Participants in Programs Encouraging Transit Innovation
    UMTA Announces Participants in Programs Encouraging Transit Innovation
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1982-05-11 | PDF
    The Urban Mass Transportation Administration today announced the selection of 33 cities, counties, states and local agencies to share in a $7 million plan to introduce new technology and innovative techniques in mass transit.
  • DOT Awards Grant to Howard University for Minority Faculty Workshop
    DOT Awards Grant to Howard University for Minority Faculty Workshop
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1982-04-16 | PDF
    Urban Mass Transportation Administrator Arthur E. Teele, Jr., today announced a $167,435 grant to Howard University, Washington, D.C. The grant will assist the university in conducting a summer workshop in transportation-related studies for faculty members of predominantly minority colleges and universities.
  • DOT Announces Transit Computer System Workshop
    DOT Announces Transit Computer System Workshop
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1982-03-26 | PDF
    The Department of Transportation's Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) and Transportation Systems Center (TSC) have announced the forthcoming release of a new computerized transit scheduling and management reporting system.
  • US Department of Transportation News Office of Public Affairs UMTA 0382 DOT Issues Rules on Northeast Commuter Rail Transfer
    US Department of Transportation News: Office of Public Affairs: UMTA 03-82: DOT Issues Rules on Northeast Commuter Rail Transfer
    Chor, Irv
    1982-02-12 | PDF
    Press release for the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (now Federal Transit Administration). This press release announces new guidelines for use of $45 million in Federal commuter rail transition funds.
  • DOT Allocates 25 Million to States for Elderly Handicapped Transit Aid
    DOT Allocates $25 Million to States for Elderly, Handicapped Transit Aid
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1982-02-11 | PDF
    Urban Mass Transportation Administrator Arthur E. Teele, Jr., today announced that $25 million is being made available to states to assist private nonprofit organizations in purchasing equipment to provide transportation services for elderly and handicapped persons.
  • UMTA Cuts Paperwork on Grant Application for Operating Assistance
    UMTA Cuts Paperwork on Grant Application for Operating Assistance
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1982-01-26 | PDF
    A streamlined application procedure for Federal operating assistance grants to mass transit systems was announced today by Administrator Arthur E. Teele, Jr., of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration. The new system is designed to focus responsibility on local authorities by eliminating or simplifying a variety of previously required paperwo ...
  • DOT Announces Participants in New Bus Equipment Program
    DOT Announces Participants in New Bus Equipment Program
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1981-12-29 | PDF
    Urban Mass Transportation Administrator Arthur E. Teele, Jr., has announced the selection of four transit systems to test and evaluate buses under the Department of Transportation's New Bus Equipment Introduction Program. Up to ten new 70-passenger articulated buses, vehicles that bend in the middle, and 20 new 20 to 30 passenger smaller transit bu ...
  • UMTA Administrator Announces Transit Management Training Program
    UMTA Administrator Announces Transit Management Training Program
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1981-11-18 | PDF
    Urban Mass Transportation Administrator Arthur E. Teele, Jr., today announced that eleven institutions have been selected for advanced training of managerial personnel in the U.S. mass transit industry.
  • DOT Awards 210 Million to Washington DC Metro
    DOT Awards $210 Million to Washington, D.C., Metro
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1981-10-29 | PDF
    Washington--Deputy Secretary of Transportation William J. Beckham Jr. today announced six grants totaling $210,149,060 to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for rapid transit engineering, design, construction and 16 new buses.
  • DOT Awards 68 Million for Chicago Transit
    DOT Awards $68 Million for Chicago Transit
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1981-10-22 | PDF
    Chicago--Ten grants totaling $68,380,244 for Chicago area transit improvements were announced today by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
  • 16 Million DOT Grant Goes to Los Angeles for Downtown People Mover
    $16 Million DOT Grant Goes to Los Angeles for Downtown People Mover
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1981-10-06 | PDF
    Los Angeles--A $16.1 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant for the final design of the Los Angeles downtown people mover was announced today. Theodore C. Lutz, DOT's Urban Mass Transportation Administrator said, "This grant covers the first year of a four-year final design and construction phase that includes the design of guideways and s ...
  • Gargano New UMTA Deputy Administrator
    Gargano New UMTA Deputy Administrator
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1981-09-30 | PDF
    Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis has sworn in Charles A. Gargano as Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Urban Mass Transportation Administration.
  • DOT Appoints Regional UMTA Representative
    DOT Appoints Regional UMTA Representative
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1981-09-15 | PDF
    The Department of Transportation today announced the appointment of Alfred A. DelliBovi as Regional Administrator of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, responsible for overseeing federal mass transit assistance programs in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Puerto Rico.
  • DOT Ends Price Offsets and Weight Incentive Provisions for Transit Bus Procurements
    DOT Ends Price Offsets and Weight Incentive Provisions for Transit Bus Procurements
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1981-07-24 | PDF
    The U.S. Department of Transportation today eliminated a requirement that limited the flexibility of local mass transit agencies in Federally-assisted bus purchases.
  • Jacksonville Gets DOT Bus Grant
    Jacksonville Gets DOT Bus Grant
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1981-06-20 | PDF
    Urban Mass Transportation Administrator Arthur E. Teele, Jr., today announced a $620,000 grant to the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, to aid in the purchase of five advanced design transit buses and related equipment.
  • DOT Awards 25 Million for Dade County Bus Facility
    DOT Awards $2.5 Million for Dade County Bus Facility
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1981-04-17 | PDF
    Miami--A $2.5 million grant to Metropolitan Dade County to assist in the purchase of land for a new bus maintenance facility was announced today by Arthur E. Teele, Jr., Administrator of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration.
  • DOT Releases Effects of Reagan Program on New York City Transit
    DOT Releases Effects of Reagan Program on New York City Transit
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1981-04-14 | PDF
    Urban Mass Transportation Administrator Arthur E. Teele, Jr., today reiterated the Reagan Administration's intention to phase-out federal operating subsidies for the nation's urban mass transit systems.
  • DOT Awards 14 Million Grants for Philadelphia Mass Transit Projects
    DOT Awards $14 Million Grants for Philadelphia Mass Transit Projects
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1981-04-10 | PDF
    Philadelphia--Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis announced today two grants totaling $14,457,820 for Philadelphia mass transit projects.
  • Carole Forest Appointed to Federal Transit Post
    Carole Forest Appointed to Federal Transit Post
    United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
    1981-04-09 | PDF
    Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis announced today the appointment of Carole A. Foryst as the Associate Administrator for Policy, Budget and Program Development for the Urban Mass Transportation Administration.
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