Caltrans Transportation Planning Grant Programs: Partnership Planning

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Caltrans Transportation Planning Grant
ProgramsPartnership Planning 5304 Transit
PlanningPresented byPriscilla
Martinez-VelezCalifornia Department of
TransportationDivision of Transportation
PlanningSacramento, CA(916) 651-8196
priscilla_martinez-velez_at_dot.ca.gov
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This discussion will focus on the following
federally funded transportation planning grants
offered through the California Department of
Transportation

• Partnership Planning
• 5304 Transit Planning
• Statewide Transit Studies
• Transit Technical Planning Assistance
• Transit Professional Development

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3.25 Million in Federally Funded Transportation
Planning Grants

• Goals to fund transportation planning studies or
  projects that improve mobility, accessibility,
  reliability, safety, or efficiency of the
  transportation system
• Not for capital improvements (construction),
  engineering work, equipment purchases, operating
  costs, environmental studies, project study
  reports

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Who is eligible to apply

• Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and
  Regional Transportation Planning Agencies (RTPAs)
  can apply as recipients
• Other entities can apply in coordination with an
  MPO or RTPA as sub-recipients
• Cities, counties, universities
• Native American Tribal Governments
• Community-based organizations
• Non-profit organizations
• Public entities

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Funding Requirements

• Funding provided on a reimbursement basis
• Work Element in the Overall Work Program
• Disadvantaged Business Enterprise reporting
• Requires a local match
• Partnership Planning grants
• supply 80 of the project cost
• require 20 minimum non-federal local match
• 5304 Transit Planning grants
• supply 88.53 of the project cost
• require 11.47 minimum non-federal local match

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Competitive Grant Process

• Statewide competition
• Two evaluation committees
• Grant award recommendations to management for
  approval

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Grant Programs

• Partnership Planning
• Transportation studies having statewide benefit
  and/or multi-regional significance
• Performed in partnership with Caltrans
• Approximately 1,000,000 funding available
• Funding provided by Federal Highway
  Administration
• Maximum award per grant is 300,000

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• Partnership Planning
• Objectives or benefits may include
• Improve public involvement
• Increase agency ability to plan or collect data
  on transportation systems and potential users
• Make more efficient use of transportation
  infrastructure and land use

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• Partnership Planning Projects
• Prior Examples
• High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lane Feasibility Study
  (Sacramento Placer) 105,000 Grant. A study to
  examine the legal, operational, financial, and
  logistical issues in determining feasibility of
  implementing a system of HOT lanes in the
  Sacramento region.
• Multi-Modal System Partnership (Fresno Madera
  Tulare Kings) 276,000 Grant. A partnership to
  develop a consensus base between local entities
  to build a base communication about coordinated
  regional land use policies framework to implement
  any high-capacity, mass transit-based,
  multi-modal corridor system adopted in the Fresno
  Blueprint process.

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5304 Transit Planning

• Transit studies funded by the Federal Transit
  Administration, projects must focus on transit
• Three sub-categories, each with separate
  objectives
• Statewide Transit Planning Studies
• Transit Technical Planning Assistance
• Transit Professional Development

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5304 Transit Planning

• Statewide Transit Planning Studies
• Transit studies that have statewide and/or
  multi-regional significance
• Approximately 1,400,000 funding available
• Maximum award per grant is 300,000

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5304 Transit Planning

• Statewide Transit Planning Studies
• Objectives may include
• Improve mobility or accessibility increase
  connectivity, enhance mode choice, improve
  transit service
• Enhance agency ability to plan, forecast or
  collect data to improve transit service
• Integrate transit in the planning process
• Encourage efficient development patterns that
  incorporate transit service

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5304 Transit Planning

• Statewide Transit Planning Studies
• Prior Examples
• Butte Regional TransitA Market-Based Approach to
  Planning Transit (Butte Glenn Sutter Yuba)
  160,000 Grant. An inter-regional study to
  develop a market-based transit report that
  clearly delineates the existing and proposed
  route system planned in consultation with the
  public.
• Victor Valley Long-Distance Commuter Needs
  Assessment Study (San Bernardino) 72,000 Grant.
  A study to assess and coordinate inter-regional
  commuter service options between the Victor
  Valley communities into the San Bernardino Valley
  and Los Angeles basin.

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5304 Transit Planning

• Transit Technical Planning Assistance
• Transit or intermodal transportation planning
  study that benefits a transit service area with a
  population of 100,000 and less
• Identifies mobility or access needs and evaluates
  continuity of service
• Approximately 700,000 funding available
• Maximum award per grant is 100,000

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5304 Transit Planning

• Transit Technical Planning Assistance
• Prior Examples
• Benicia Breeze Local Transit Service Study
  (Solano) 30,000 Grant
• City of Escalon Short Range Transit Plan (San
  Joaquin) 30,000 Grant
• Making Transit Work in the City of San Marcos
  (San Diego) 88,728 Grant

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5304 Transit Planning

• Transit Professional Development
• Project provides student transit planning
  internships in a public transportation agency
• Approximately 150,000 in funding available
• Maximum award per grant is 50,000

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5304 Transit Planning

• Transit Professional Development
• Prior Examples
• Marin County Transit District Internships in
  Transit Planning (Marin) 40,220 Grant
• Monterey Bay Transit Planning Rotational
  Internship Program (Monterey Santa Cruz) 50,000
  Grant
• Rising Stars in Transit Internships for
  University Students (Riverside) 50,000

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The transportation planning grant application
package is available on the Caltrans website

• http//www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tpp/grants.html

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Questions?

• Priscilla Martinez-VelezCalifornia Department of
  TransportationDivision of Transportation
  PlanningSacramento, CA(916) 651-8196
• priscilla_martinez-velez_at_dot.ca.gov