Minnesota Department of Transportation joins Smart Growth America’s artist-in-residence program, by hosting a Community Vitality Fellow to creatively meet the agency’s goals of promoting economic vitality, improving safety, supporting multimodal transportation systems and creating healthier communities. A Community Vitality Fellow will spend a year working with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) to help develop […]

Innovative Transit Workforce Development FY 2012 Summative Evaluation Report Now Available To help address transit workforce challenges, FTA awarded more than $7 million to 16 innovative transit workforce development projects in FY 2012. A Summary Evaluation Report of those projects is now available. This investment identified promising innovative models for workforce development, including: 1) projects that support […]

With Congress looking to move an infrastructure bill forward this spring, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) released new research identifying at least $232 billion in critical public transportation investments. The findings were unveiled as part of a report that was released for the first time at APTA’s annual legislative conference on March 18, shedding light […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced on March 18 the opportunity for eligible applicants to apply for up to $85 million in competitive grant funds through FTA’s Low or No Emission (Low-No) Bus Program. The Low-No Program helps project sponsors purchase or lease low- or no-emission vehicles that use advanced technologies for […]