Office of Public Transit Presentation to IPTA November 28, 2006

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Office of Public Transit Presentation to
IPTANovember 28, 2006
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Public Transit Infrastructure Program

• Rules are in progress (will be presented to the
  Iowa Transportation Commission in December)
• Applications are available at www.iatransit.com
  and are due Dec. 15

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ICB JARC Projects

• Will be presented to the Iowa Transportation
  Commission December 12th

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ICB Projects

• List of projects and s
• Cedar Rapids 240,000
• Fort Dodge 7,500
• Region 8 1,800
• Burlington Trailways 147,422
• Jefferson Lines 551,287
• 948,009

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JARC Projects

• List of projects and s
• Waterloo 70,000
• Region 9 138,007
• Region 16 47,180
• 255,187

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Passenger Transportation Development Plans
(PTDPs)

• Drafts are due February 15th
• Please work with your RPA or MPO

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FTA Materials Currently Out for Comment

• Clean Fuels Grant Program
• Comments due Dec. 15
• Safety and Security Management
• Comments due Dec. 11

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United We Ride

• Policy Statements
• Coordinated Planning
• Vehicle Sharing

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Funding Projections

• Available on www.iatransit.com, along with the
  Consolidated Funding Application materials.

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FY08 ConsolidatedTransit Funding Applications

• Available on www.iatransit.com
• Due to OPT May 1, 2007

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PTMS Committee Update
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PTMS Committee Members

• Peter Donner, large urbans gt200k pop.
• Ron Logsden, large urbans 50-200k pop.
• Ann Harrison, small urbans
• Sandy Langel, regionals
• Randy Zobrist, regionals

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PTMS Policy Updates

• On-board security systems
• pre-wiring should be considered on new vehicles
• no statewide funds will be used toward
  replacement security systems less than six years
  old

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Update of FY07 Programming Guidance for HD
Vehicles

• Federal Thresholds
• Heavy Duty Bus (26-29 ft.) 83 of 250,000
  10 yr./350,000 mi.
• Revised
  83 of 262,000
• Heavy Duty Bus (30-34 ft.) 83 of 282,000
  10 yr./350,000 mi.
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  Revised 83 of 296,000
• Heavy Duty Bus (35-39 ft.) 83 of 297,000
  12 yr./500,000 mi.
• Revised
  83 of 308,000
• Heavy Duty Bus (40-42 ft.) 83 of 310,000
  12 yr./500,000 mi.
• Revised
  83 of 320,000

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FY08 Programming Guidance

• Available on www.iatransit.com, along with the
  Consolidated Funding Application materials.

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Pro-rating useful life of slightly used vehicles
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Vehicles lt10k per year(many with no miles
during the past year)

• PTMS Committee concerns
• Lack of use may imply lack of need
• Keeping junkers until they get points to
  replace
• A policy needs to be adopted.

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Vehicles lt10k per year

• Suggested policy
• Vehicles that have not accumulated mileage for
  the last fiscal year, will cause the forfeiture
  of the equal number of vehicles eligible and
  scheduled to be funded for replacement.

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Vanpool Vehicles

• PTMS Committee Recommendation
• Allow vanpool vehicles to compete for
  statewide funding

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Peerpool Policy Options

• No Change except to improve tracking and
  enforcement ability, through an MOA
• Rolling peerpool commitment
• Applying all peerpool funds to vehicle
  replacement list
• Allow use of equivalent amount of local funds for
  capital commitments (with earmark funds going to
  vehicle replacement)

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