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...

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

Description: This course provides instruction on basic concepts and elements of the transportation planning and programming process. Course participants will have the opportunity to explore various examples of how statewide and metropolitan planning and programming...

Introduction to Transportation Conformity

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 staff (federal, state and local) to participate in...

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...

Environmental Justice for Transit Professionals

Description: This two-day course provides a comprehensive review of Environmental Justice requirements for federal transit projects, and how these requirements affect transportation decision-making. The course includes a summary of the evolution of Environmental...

Transit Academy

Description: The National Transit Institute (NTI) “Transit Academy” is a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes, study of the nation’s most innovative transit systems. Academy participants will gain an in-depth understanding of the scope of responsibilities, variety of...

Project Management for Transit Professionals

Description: The goal of this course is to help transit professionals appreciate the importance of analyzing, leading, and managing the complexities of transit projects by providing them with the tools to foster success. Objectives: By the end of this course...

Introduction to Transit Asset Management

Description: Transit asset management represents a strategic approach to managing transit assets. This course helps participants understand business processes, resource allocation and resource utilization. Once these processes are defined, participants will learn how...