Sources of funding transit in Texas : final report.

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• Creators:
  Cherrington, Linda Kay ; Tan, Shuman ; Hansen, Todd
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Capital expenditures
  • Federal aid
  • Financing
  • Operating revenues
  • Public transit
  • Revenues
  • Rural areas
  • State aid
  • Urban areas
  • Financial sources
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  PRC 15-11.2
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  This report provides information on the sources of revenue to fund transit in urban and rural areas in Texas—through federal, state, and local sources. All public transit systems are eligible for federal funds from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The state agency responsible for allocating state transit funds is the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The report is organized by four topics: - An explanation of the three categories of transit systems in Texas: - Transit authorities and municipal transit departments. - Urban transit districts. - Rural transit districts. - A discussion of each of the FTA federal funding programs to support transit in urban and rural areas. - An explanation of the formula used to allocate state transit funds appropriated by the Texas Legislature each biennium to urban and rural transit districts. - A description of sources of local revenues. In Texas, transit authorities and municipal transit departments are authorized by voters to impose a sales tax dedicated to transit. Urban and rural transit districts do not have access to a dedicated local funding source and must generate local revenues from other sources. The report provides a summary of the revenues applied for operating and capital expenses in fiscal year (FY) 2016.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32699/dot_32699_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 966.02 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:fd9589315941d4126c8e4700b1035cbff3d8b978f96ad9e75a0fbe2bed0704ed