Understand Transit Funding: A Complete Guide to Formulas

This course will demystify federal transit funding formulas and provide you with strategies to help your agency secure every dollar you're entitled to. You will learn how the formulas work, where the data comes from, and how to get your fair share.

Lesson 1: Understanding Transit Formulas

What You Will Learn:

We will walk through the transit formulas step-by-step, focusing on the formulas most relevant to training participants.

Lesson 4: Small Transit Intensive Cities

What You Will Learn:

This lesson is geared towards agencies in small urban areas and will discuss ways to gain formula funds by increasing services and reporting additional data.

Lesson 2: All About Urbanized Areas

What You Will Learn:

What are urbanized areas and why do they matter? We’ll fill you in on this critical formula building block

Lesson 3: Formula Apportionments Data

What You Will Learn:

An overview of the NTD and Census data inputs, how data is used, and how to access it.

Lesson 5: Verifying Your Allocation and Predicting Future Funding

What You Will Learn:

How to use formula data and unit values to double-check your allocation and predict future funding.

Lesson 6: Get Your Fair Share of Funding

What You Will Learn:

Tips on reporting and allocating complete and accurate NTD data and requesting suballocations to maximize the amount allocated to your agency.