FTA Programs

This page serves as an index to the variety of programs administered by the Federal Transit Administration. You have two options: Find by Name or Find by Statute.

Find by Name

(listed alphabetically)

• Alternative Transportation in Parks and Public Lands (§5320)
• Alternatives Analysis (§5339)
• Civil Rights
• Clean Fuels (§5308)
• Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
• Elderly and Disabled (§5310)
• Environmental Analysis & Review
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Financial Management Oversight
• Flexible Funding
• Grant Programs
• International Mass Transportation Program [§5312(c)]
• Job Access and Reverse Commute (§5316)
• Metropolitan & Statewide Planning (§5303, §5304, §5305)
• National Fuel Cell Bus Technology Development (SAFETEA-LU §3045)
• National Transit Database
• New Freedom (§5317)
• New Starts [§5309(d)]
• Non-urbanized Formula [§5311(a)]
• Over-the-road Bus Accessibility (SAFETEA-LU §3038)
• Oversight
• Penta-P
• Private Enterprise Participation (§5306)
• Project Management Oversight
• Public-Private Partnership Pilot Program [SAFETEA-LU §3011(c)]
• Public Transportation Participation Pilot Program [SAFETEA-LU §3046(a)(11)]
• Rail and Fixed Guideway Modernization [§5309(m)]
• Real Estate
• Rural Transportation Formula [§5311(a)]
• Rural Transportation Assistance Program [§5311(b)(3)]
• Safety & Security
• Small Starts [§ 5309(e)]
• State Management Oversight
• State of Good Repair
• Third Party Procurement
• Transit Cooperative Research Program (§5313)
• Transit-Oriented Development & Joint Development
• Transportation Planning Capacity Building Program
• Travel Model Improvement Program
• Tribal Transit [§5311(c)]
• Triennial Reviews
• Urban Partnership Agreements 
• Urbanized Area Formula (§5307)
• US DOT Lending Programs
  

Find by Statute – 49 USC Chapter 53

(popular grant programs only)

• §5303 – Metropolitan Planning
• §5304 – Statewide Planning
• §5305 – Planning Programs
• §5307 – Urbanized Area Formula
• §5308 – Clean Fuels
• §5309 – Capital Investments (New Starts, Rail Modernization, and Bus & Bus-related)
• §5310 – Elderly Individuals and Individuals with Disabilities
• §5311(a) – Other Than Urbanized Areas
• §5311(b)(3) – Rural Transportation Assistance Program
• §5311(c) – Public Transportation on Indian Reservations
• §5313 – Transit Cooperative Research Program
• §5314 – National Research Programs
• §5316 – Job Access and Reverse Commute
• §5317 – New Freedom
• §5320 – Alternative Transportation in Parks and Public Lands
• §5339 – Alternatives Analysis