Procurement II: Risk Assessment and Basic Cost or Price Analysis

Note: Please do not register for Procurement II without having first completed Procurement I. Description: The second of a four-part series *, this four-day course is designed to strengthen the procurement practices of transit authorities by improving the ability to...

Procurement I – Orientation to Transit Procurement

Description: This four-day foundational course is an overview of transit procurement and emphasizes “best practices” for contract procurements by FTA grantees. This course will focus on good procurement business practices and policies from a broader...

Procurement for Small and Medium Transit Systems

No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back. Description: This course provides an overview of transit procurement, emphasizing “best practices” for contract procurements by small and medium transit systems who are recipients of FTA funding. The...

Introduction to Paratransit Management and Operations

Description: The goal of this course is to teach transit professionals the skills needed to effectively manage and operate paratransit services. Objectives: Participants in this course will learn: History of demand response service and where the industry is today The...

Overview of Transit Procurement for Senior Leadership

No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back. Description: This revised half-day seminar offers senior leadership a better understanding of the rationale, functions, and general process of third-party contracting for FTA grantees. It provides an overview of major...

National Transit Database: Urban Reporting

Description: The goal of this course is to help transit professionals learn the necessary skills for reporting urban data to the NTD internet reporting website. Objectives: Participants in this course will learn: Benefits and impacts associated with the NTD annual...

Management of Transit Construction Projects

Description: This course will explore best practices to  Manage Transit Construction Project successfully.  FTA capital construction projects ranging in cost from a few million dollar to billion dollar major capital projects, which all use certain fundamental...

FTA Real Estate Requirements

Description: The acquisition of real estate and the displacement of persons for an FTA assisted project is regulated by the Uniform Act. FTA has also developed various additional regulatory guidance materials for its real estate activities. The practical application...

Disadvantaged Business Enterprise

Description: Every transit agency receiving funding from FTA must comply with DOT’s DBE regulations. Transit grantees and others involved in the application and the administration of the DBE requirements should have a complete understanding of these requirements...

Comprehensive ADA Paratransit Eligibility

No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back. Description: The course begins with a review of ADA paratransit criteria and then reviews ADA paratransit eligibility requirements. The two-day session presents more detailed information about alternative eligibility...

Bus Procurement Workshop

No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back. Description: As the buses available to the transit industry have expanded to include high tech fleets, purchasing a vehicle has become more complicated and requires discussions with the manufacturers to get the bus...

Transportation and Land Use

No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back. Description: Transportation and Land Use is a three-day course that is designed to help practitioners develop a multimodal transportation system that supports desired land uses and help shape land uses to support the...

Transit-Oriented Development

]No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back. Description: Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is defined as compact, mixed-use development near transit that creates sustainable communities where people of all ages and incomes have transportation and housing...

Transit Noise and Vibration Impact Assessment

Description: The goal of the course is to present FTA’s procedures and methods for predicting and assessing noise and vibration impacts from proposed mass transit projects. The training modules in this three-day course closely follow the procedures contained in...

State and Metropolitan Transportation Programming (Online)

Description: This course is a condensed online overview of the concepts that are presented in our classroom course by the same name.  The course provides an overview of the basic concepts, components, and participants in the transportation programming process. Current...

State and Metropolitan Transportation Programming

No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back. Description: This course provides instruction on the basic concepts, components, and participants in the transportation programming process. Current and best practices will be incorporated into the program. The two...

Managing the Environmental Review Process Seminar

No deliveries currently.  Please check back. Description: FTA is undertaking a number of initiatives to go “back to basics” and to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the environmental review process to expedite project delivery.   This seminar...

Introduction to Transportation Conformity

No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back. Description: The Transportation Conformity course will present basic information about conformity requirements and the relationship of the transportation and air quality planning processes in order to prepare agency...

Introduction to Transit Service Planning

Description: This course seeks to enable participants to understand the public transit service planning process from concept design through service implementation and service evaluation. By the end of the course, participants will be able to undertake conceptual...

Financial Planning in Transportation

No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back. Description: Federal transportation planning requirements have long called for the development of continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive metropolitan and statewide transportation planning processes. These...