Planning Capacity Building Program

The objective of this project is to improve transportation planning and decision making in metropolitan and rural areas. Under co-sponsorship of the FTA and FHWA, the Planning Capacity Building Program provides training, technical assistance, and support to transit operators, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), state departments of transportation (DOTs), and other stakeholders to improve transportation planning and decision making in metropolitan and rural areas. The project involves identifying, assessing, and responding to the information and training needs of planning participants. The Planning Capacity Building Program includes products and services such as, the development and upgrading the website containing case studies and effective practices on a variety of topics, sponsoring and facilitating peer-exchange workshops, enabling planning partners to learn from each other, and developing briefing books on selected planning topics.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $500000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  MA-26-1002

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Transit Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Stallsmith, Effie

• Performing Organizations:

  Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142
• Principal Investigators:

  Lyons, William

• Start Date: 20021100
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20031100
• Source Data: RiP Project 9372

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway capacity; Metropolitan planning organizations; Research projects; Technical assistance; Training; Transit operators; Transportation planning; Websites (Information retrieval); Workshops
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Education and Training; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01458837
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Transit Administration
• Contract Numbers: MA-26-1002
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 12:51PM