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//-->FTA Section 5309 New Starts ProgramEvaluation Processpresented byLaurie Hussey and Tom RossiCambridge Systematics, Inc.November 17, 2006Transportation leadership you can trust.What is a “New Start”?“Any fixed guide-way system which utilizes and occupies aseparate right-of-way, or rail line, for the exclusive use of masstransportation and other high occupancy vehicles, or uses afixed catenary system and a right-of-way usable by other formsof transportation”Rapid railLight railCommuter railAutomated guide-way transitPeople moversExclusive facilities for buses (such as bus rapid transit)or other HOVsNew Starts Process OverviewSystems PlanningIdentification of Regional Travel Patterns and Priority Transportation ProblemsAlternatives AnalysisAnalysis of Costs, Benefits, and Impacts of Alternative Solution StrategiesSelect LPA,MPO Action, DevelopCriteria, PMPMajor Development StageDecision PointFTA Decision onEntry into PEProject Management OversightPreliminary EngineeringComplete NEPA Process Refinement of Financial PlanFTA Decisionon Entry into FinalDesignFinal DesignCommitment of Non-Federal Funding, Construction Plans, ROW Acquisition,Before-After Data Collection Plan, FTA Evaluation for FFGA, Begin NegotiationsFull FundingGrant AgreementConstruction2FTA New Starts PolicyDiscretionary Federal programNew Starts caseloadCriteria needed for FTA recommendations to CongressSmall and Very Small Starts projects defined underSAFETEA-LU exempted3Evolution of FTA’s New Starts Policy1976 – Alternatives analysis•Projects must be “cost effectiveness”•TSM alternative1978 – Policy toward rail transit•Local financial commitment•Full funding grant agreement1980 – Link toward EIS requirements1984 – Policy on major investments•Ratings and cost per new rider criteria1987 – Surface Transportation and Uniform RelocationAssistance Act•Statutory criteria – cost effectiveness and financial•Section 3(j) Report to Congress4
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