The goal of this award is to lead a new transit standards program and develop meaningful standards including minimum performance standards recommended practices and white paper documents that will…
Active Cooperative Agreement Awarded
- Award ID
- DC2023008
- Recipient
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American Public Transportation Association UEI W9HQUABT5UN4
- Awarding agency
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Federal Transit Administration
Department of Transportation
- Obligated
- $3,079,430
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 20.531 Technical Assistance and Workforce Development
- Completion date 78% complete
- Funding
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- $2,974,430.00 Federal
- $105,000.00 Non-federal
- Place of performance
- Washington, DC, USA
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Description
- Activities
- The tasks to achieve the goals of this award include the development and issuance of a transit industry needs survey. This is used to obtain stakeholder input on focus areas for which new standards documents may be needed or existing standards documents updated. The transit industry needs survey will be disseminated through various outreach methods to obtain data on focus areas for new standards documents. Stakeholder data will then be inputted into a transit industry needs report. Data from the transit industry needs report will be analyzed and consolidated into specific groupings and aligned against existing standards or lack thereof. Conclusions from the data analyses that identify key areas in need of new or updated standards will be produced in a report titled proposed areas in need of standards report. The proposed areas for new or updated standards development will then be validated through a vetting process that summarizes the benefits and other impacts of potential action in the different areas including alignment of the proposed areas with usdot and FTA priorities (as defined in the FTA strategic plan). From the vetting process the focus areas will be prioritized based on timeframe and document type (i.e. standards recommended practices white paper) for the most appropriate action for transit agencies to adopt the standard into a timeframe and document options report. A final list of standards to advance will be produced and those selected by FTA to advance will be developed through existing apta and cutr standards programs and/or those of other standards development organizations. This will be done to expeditiously develop complete and publish new or updated standards documents.
- Expected outcomes
- The creation of standards from this award will benefit transit agencies and the communities they serve through improved safety operational efficiencies and reliability.
- Intended beneficiaries
- Transit agencies and their employees will directly benefit from the standards produced by this award through improved safety and operational efficiencies. The communities served by transit agencies that adopt these standards will also directly benefit from improved safety and benefit indirectly by improved service reliability and operational efficiencies.
- Subrecipient activities
- Apta/cutr have selected five industry lens partners to serve as our filter for assessing analyzing prioritizing and implementing new standards. They are uniquely positioned to TAP into and reflect the interests of critical constituencies and issues as well as to provide subject matter expertise. Our industry lens partners include the following: diversity equity inclusion: conference of minority transportation officials (COMTO); climate change sustainability: center for transportation the environment (CTE); community and rural/tribal transit: community transit association of america (CTAA); rural/tribal transit: national rtap; and cyber security and national research: ensco.
Quick answers
Who received award DC2023008?
DC2023008 was awarded to American Public Transportation Association by Federal Transit Administration (Department of Transportation) on September 8, 2023.
How much is award DC2023008 worth?
$3,079,430 has been obligated on DC2023008: $2,974,430 in federal funding and $105,000 in non-federal funding.
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