Hosted by FDOT District 5
August 4, 2011
Purpose and Objective
 Collectively understand the opportunities available
 Coordinate our strategic approach
 Maximize our region’s success
FDOT D5; MetroPlan Orlando, Space Coast TPO, Volusia TPO,
Ocala/Marion County TPO, Lake~Sumter MPO; LYNX,
VOTRAN, Space Coast Area Transit, Sumter County Transit,
Lake Xpress, Counties of Brevard, Flagler, Lake, Marion, Orange,
Osceola, Seminole, Sumter and Volusia; East Central Florida
Regional Planning Council; and all Cities in D5.
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Meeting Agenda
 Recap previous meetings
 Summarize applications submitted to date / Share any new
information regarding the remaining grants available
 Share updates on all partners efforts and coordination
occurring for the remaining grants
 Coordinate our strategic approach to the remaining grant
opportunities
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Group Discussion
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Recap Previous Meetings
 USDOT, HUD, EPA Partnership
 Overview of FY 2011 Discretionary Program Opportunities
 Brainstorming of Project Ideas – Group Discussion
 Identify and Develop Consensus:
 Which projects to pursue
 Which grant opportunity is appropriate for each
 Which agency will lead each
 Strategies for Regional Success
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Applications Submitted to Date
Grant Opportunity Lead Applicant
Project
Application Due
FTA State of Good
Repair
LYNX
LYMMO Rehabilitation
July 29, 2011
FTA Livability-AA
FDOT
OIA Connector AA
US 441 (Orange Blossom Express) AA
July 29, 2011
LYNX
SR 50 AA
July 29, 2011
LYNX
Kissimmee Intermodal Center
July 29, 2011
FTA LivabilityBus/Bus Facility
State of Good Repair…intended to contribute to the improvement of the condition of transit capital assets by
providing financial assistance for recapitalization of buses and bus facilities.
Livability AA…to assist potential sponsors of New Starts and Small Starts projects in the evaluation of all
reasonable modal and multimodal alternatives and general alignment options to address transportation needs
in a defined travel corridor.
Livability Bus/Bus Facility…makes funds available to public transportation providers to finance capital
projects to replace, rehabilitate, and purchase buses and related equipment and to construct bus-related
facilities.
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FY 2011 Discretionary Program Opportunities
Rollout
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Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program
HUD…supports metropolitan and multijurisdictional planning efforts that integrate
housing, land use, economic and workforce development, transportation, and
infrastructure investments.
Match requirement: 20%
Funding Available: $67 million; $400,000 minimum / $5 million maximum
(not less than $17.5 million awarded to regions with a population of less than 500,000)
Evaluation Criteria (Pre-app):
•The degree that the plan reflects the federal Livability Principles;
•The effectiveness with which the plan coordinates housing and
Transportation planning and investments;
•Evidence of targeted areas of economic development, public
infrastructure, and community development investment that
advances sustainability;
•A range of enforceable priority areas for conservation of land,
open space, energy, and water resources;
•A thorough set of scenario analyses that form the basis for
planning decisions, including maps of current and projected land
use and infrastructure investments;
•An analysis of impediments to fair housing and economic
opportunity;
•A comprehensive strategy to increase the supply of housing
affordable to people of all income ranges throughout the region;
Eligible activities:
Tasks necessary to develop a comprehensive
Regional Plan for Sustainable Development
(RPSD), to align investments with this plan,
to improve the management capability to
implement the plan, and to develop relevant
policy, planning, and evaluation capacity.
Applicants are not limited to the activities
described below and are not required to
address all of the activities but shall address
those necessary to develop a comprehensive
RPSD as is appropriate to their local context.
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Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program
HUD…supports metropolitan and multijurisdictional planning efforts that integrate
housing, land use, economic and workforce development, transportation, and
infrastructure investments.
Eligibility to apply:
A multijurisdictional and multi sector partnership
consisting of a consortium of government entities and
non-profit partners
Application Evaluation Criteria:
Capacity of the Applicant and Relevant
Organizational Experience (15 points)
Needs/Extent of the Problem (10 points)
Soundness of Approach (50 points)
Match, Leveraging Resources, and Program
Integration (7 points)
Achieving Results and Program Evaluation (18
points)
Funding Categories:
Category 1: Regional Plans for
Sustainable Development.
Category 2: Detailed Execution Plans
and Programs.
HUD Priority:
Investing in partnerships, including
nontraditional partnerships (e.g., arts and
culture, recreation, public health, food
systems, regional planning agencies and
public education entities) that translate the
Livability Principles into strategies that direct
long-term development and reinvestment,
demonstrate a commitment to addressing
issues of regional significance, use data to set
and monitor progress toward performance
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goals, and engage stakeholders and residents
Over the Road Bus Accessibility Program
FTA…to improve mobility and ensuring that the transportation system is accessible, integrated, and
efficient, and offers flexibility of choices… projects will improve mobility for individuals with disabilities
by providing financial assistance to help make vehicles accessible and training to ensure that drivers and
others are properly trained to use accessibility features as well as how to treat patrons with disabilities.
Match requirement: 10%
Funding Available: $8.8 million; $25,000 minimum / $180,000 maximum
Evaluation Criteria:
a. The identified need for OTRB accessibility
b. Innovative strategies and financial commitment
c. The extent to which the OTRB operator acquired
equipment required
d. The extent to which financing the costs of
complying with DOT’s rule presents a financial
hardship for the applicant.
e. The impact of accessibility requirements on service
to rural areas and for low-income individuals.
Eligible activities:
capital and training costs of complying
with DOT’s OTRB accessibility rule (49
CFR part 37), includes adding lifts, tie-downs,
moveable seats, doors and training costs
associated with using the accessibility
features and serving persons with
disabilities.
Eligibility to apply:
OTRB operators who provide both intercity,
fixed-route service and another type of
service, such as commuter, charter or tour.
FTA does not award grants to public entities
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under this program.
Veteran’s Transportation and Community Living Initiative
FTA…will help communities build or expand local One-Call/One-Click Centers to bring together
transportation services available to the general public with those available to customers of
human services programs, and especially services for veterans and military families.
Match requirement: 20%
Funding Available: $30 million; no minimum, $2 million maximum
Evaluation Criteria:
Projects will be evaluated by an
interagency review team based on the
proposals submitted according to:
(1)Planning and prioritization at the local/
regional level;
(2) readiness;
(3)technical, legal and financial capacity;
(4) demonstration of need.
Eligible activities:
Capital expenses related to the establishing a
One-Call/One-Click Center:
hardware purchases (computers, servers);
in-vehicle technology (automatic vehicle
location systems, communication devices,
mobile data terminals);
software(scheduling & dispatching,
communications, billing, consumer mobile
applications);
facility-related capital (purchase, lease,
alteration);
design and engineering,
project administration (not to exceed 10% of
costs).
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Veteran’s Transportation and Community Living Initiative
(con’t)
FTA…will help communities build or expand local One-Call/One-Click Centers to bring together
transportation services available to the general public with those available to customers of
human services programs, and especially services for veterans and military families.
Eligibility to apply:
Direct Recipients under FTA’s Section 5307 Urbanized Area Formula program, local governments,
States, and Indian Tribes.
FTA Prioritization:
1. Identify transportation and mobility needs of their veterans and military community;
2. Propose to create or increase access to a community One-Call/One-Click Transportation
Resource Center or expand existing community One-Call/ One-Click Center to include
transportation resources and address identified needs of veterans and military
families;
3. Commit to increase the use of mobility management techniques within the VA system; and,
4. Commit to use innovative or technology-based approaches to increase involvement in locally
coordinated transportation planning to address additional mobility needs of veterans and members
of the military community.
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Updates on Grants Coordination
Sustainability Initiative – TIGGER
No projects to be submitted.
Sustainability Initiative - Clean Fuels
Request for hybrid buses and articulated buses (LYNX)
HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant
Developing regional partnerships between transit providers and communities with
committed commuter rail stations (ECFRPC)
A. improve transit, bicycle and pedestrian connectivity;
B. reinvigorate minority or low income neighborhoods;
C. provide affordable housing adjacent to Central Florida’s new SunRail stations;
D. create a multi modal corridor of regional commerce and sustainable urban
development;
E. increase regional economic competitiveness
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Updates on Grants Coordination
TIGER III
FDOT Statewide Applications (3)
SunRail Collection of Circulators – Lake Nona/Medical City, Longwood, Lake Mary,
DeLand, Orange City, Debary, Kissimmee (streetcar), FlexBus for Altamonte Springs
and Casselberry. Tie this in with Quite Zones project idea.
Regional Pedestrian Safety Project - All Counties and Cities in MetroPlan Orlando
area, extended to Volusia County area as well.
Regional Rails to Trails – 21 miles of St John’s to Sea Loop. Space Coast TPO,
Volusia TPO, Brevard County, City of Titusville, East Central Florida Regional
Planning Council - ECFRPC
Rebuilding of Orange Avenue with underground utilities – City of Daytona Beach
Minneola Interchange – Lake Sumter MPO, City of Minneola, FL Turnpike.
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Coordinated Strategic Approach
Grant Proposal Ideas:
FTA Over the Road Bus?
FTA Veterans Transportation and Community Living Initiative?
Remaining grants:
FTA Sustainability Initiative:
Clean Fuels
TIGGER
DOT TIGER
HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant
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Strategies for Regional Success
 Attention to DOT/HUD/EPA Partnership for Sustainability and the 6
livability principles.
 Align in support of SunRail.
 Provide more than the minimum match requirement. In-kind services
can be used if documented.
 Obtain support/match from private partners.
 Engage non-transportation agencies/organizations.
 Contact HUD and EPA.
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Next Steps
Agency
Grant Opportunity
Applications Due
FTA
Sustainability Initiative-Clean Fuels Program
8/23/2011
HUD
Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant
FTA
Over the Road Bus
Pre-app due 8/25/2011, final due 30 to 45
days later
9/12/2011
FTA
Veterans Transportation and Community Living Initiative
9/16/2011
FTA
Tribal Transit Program
9/26/2011
DOT
TIGER
Pre-app due 10/3/2011, final due
10/31/2011
Thank you for your participation!
FDOT District Five Contact Information:
Brenda Young, M.S., E.I.
Modal Planning Manager
Florida Department of Transportation, District 5
133 South Semoran Blvd ♦ Orlando, Florida 32807
P: (407) 482-7852
Email: brenda.young@dot.state.fl.us
There’s a better way to get to work! Find out more at www.reThinkYourCommute.com
or call 1-866-610-RIDE (7433).
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Other Grant Information for
Reference
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Sustainability Initiative – Transit Investments for
Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER)
FTA…for capital investments that will reduce the energy consumption and/or
greenhouse gas emissions of public transportation systems.
Match requirement: 10% match expected, can request up to 100% Federal, but will
be ranked lower
Funding Available: $49.9 million; $1 million minimum / $15 million maximum
Evaluation Criteria:
a. Evaluation Criteria for Energy Consumption Reduction
Projects: FTA will evaluate proposals on total energy
consumption savings projected to result from the project, and
projected energy savings of the project as a percentage of the
total energy usage of the public transit agency.
b. Evaluation Criterion for Greenhouse Gas Emission
Reduction Projects: FTA will evaluate proposals based on the
total amount of greenhouse gas reductions projected to result
from the project.
c. Evaluation Criteria for All Projects:
(1) Project Innovation of National significance
(2) National Applicability
(3) Project Readiness
(4) Project Management
(5) Return on Investment
(6) Geographic Diversity
Eligible activities:
(1) The expense must be an eligible capital
expense as defined under 49 U.S.C.
5302(a)(1); and
(2) The project will assist in the reduction
of the energy consumption of a public
transportation system and/or the
reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of a
public transportation system.
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Sustainability Initiative – Transit Investments for
Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) (con’t)
FTA…for capital investments that will reduce the energy consumption and/or
greenhouse gas emissions of public transportation systems.
Eligibility to apply:
Public transportation agencies, Federally recognized
Tribes or State DOTs may apply. A public
transportation agency may apply for one or multiple
projects in one proposal. Additionally, a State DOT
may submit a consolidated proposal for multiple
projects from one or more transit agencies in order
to meet the $1,000,000 threshold.
FTA Prioritization:
Innovative technologies of national
significance
Previous Project Awards – Local
FL – City of Tallahassee – Deployment of zero
emission electric buses at StarMetro - $5,241,003
Previous Project Awards – National
CA – Foothil Transit – Fast-Charge electric transit bus
project line 291 - $10,170,000
IL – Illinois DOT – Modifying locomotives to include an
automatic shut-down/start-up system to reduce emissions $341,694
MN – Metropolitan Council/Metro Transit – Project
reduces greenhouse gas emissions via geothermal heating
versus gas combustion - $1,200,000
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Sustainability Initiative – Clean Fuels Grant Program, Augmented
With Discretionary Bus and Bus Facilities Program
FTA…to assist nonattainment and maintenance areas in achieving or maintaining the National
Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone and CO, and to support emerging clean fuel and
advanced propulsion technologies for transit buses and markets for those technologies.
Match requirement:
(1) Vehicles— 10% for the net incremental cost of the clean fuels component of the vehicle
(2) Facilities—10% percent of the cost of the CAA elements of the facility (3) 10% for the total cost of a biodiesel bus
(4) 10% for the net capital cost of factory installed hybrid electric propulsion systems and any equipment related
Funding Available: $51.5 million
Evaluation Criteria:
(1) Planning and prioritization at local/regional level
(2) The project is ready to implement
(3) The applicants demonstrate the technical, legal,
and financial capacity to carry out the project
(4) Demonstrated Need
(5) The applicant demonstrates the benefits of the
proposed project in reducing transportation related
pollutants
(6) The proposed project supports emerging clean
fuels technologies or advanced technologies for transit
buses
(7) Geographic Diversity
(8) Budget Information
Eligible activities:
(1) Purchasing or leasing clean fuel buses,
including buses that employ a lightweight
composite primary structure and vans for use in
revenue service
(2) Constructing or leasing clean fuel bus
facilities or electrical recharging facilities and
related equipment
(3) Projects relating to clean fuel, biodiesel,
hybrid electric, or zero emissions technology
buses that exhibit equivalent or superior
emissions reductions to existing clean fuel or
hybrid electric technologies
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Sustainability Initiative – Clean Fuels Grant Program, Augmented
With Discretionary Bus and Bus Facilities Program (con’t)
FTA…to assist nonattainment and maintenance areas in achieving or maintaining the National
Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone and CO, and to support emerging clean fuel and
advanced propulsion technologies for transit buses and markets for those technologies.
Eligibility to apply:
Designated recipients in maintenance or nonattainment areas for ozone or CO, which are entities
designated to receive Federal urbanized formula
funds, direct recipients, tribes, and State
Departments of Transportation in attainment areas.
FTA Prioritization:
Projects that assist nonattainment and maintenance
areas in achieving or maintaining the National
Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone and
carbon monoxide and support emerging clean fuel
and advanced propulsion technologies for transit
buses and markets for those technologies.
Previous Project Awards – Local
FL – Jacksonville Transportation
Authority – Hybrid Bus Replacement $4,000,000
Previous Project Awards – National
NY – NY Metropolitan Transportation
Authority – CNG Fueling Facility - $5,810,000
GA – Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
Authority – Retrofit of Buses with Lithium-ion
Batteries - $840,000
AZ – Navajo Transit System – Electric Buses $2,000,000
IA – City of Ames – Purchase of Bio-Diesel
Articulated Buses - $1,256,940
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National Infrastructure Investments – Transportation
Investments Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER)
DOT…for capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure and are to be
awarded on a competitive basis for projects that will have a significant impact on
the Nation, a metropolitan area, or a region.
Match requirement: 20%
Funding Available: $527 million; $10 million minimum / $200 million maximum
(for rural areas, minimum $1 million)
Evaluation Criteria (Primary & Secondary):
Primary:
1) Long-Term Outcomes
(i) State of Good Repair
(ii) Economic Competitiveness
(iii) Livability
(iv) Environmental Sustainability
(v) Safety
(2) Job Creation & Near-Term Economic Activity.
Secondary:
(1) Innovation
(2) Partnership
Eligible activities:
Include, but are not limited to:
(1) Highway or bridge projects eligible
under title 23, United States Code;
(2) Public transportation projects
eligible under chapter 53 of title 49,
United States Code;
(3) Passenger and freight rail
transportation projects
(4) Port infrastructure investments 22
National Infrastructure Investments – Transportation
Investments Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER)
DOT…for capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure and are to be
awarded on a competitive basis for projects that will have a significant impact on
the Nation, a metropolitan area, or a region.
Eligibility to apply:
State, local, and tribal governments, including U.S.
territories, tribal governments, transit agencies, port
authorities, metropolitan planning organizations
(MPOs), other political subdivisions of State or local
governments, and multi-State or multijurisdictional
groups applying through a single lead applicant
DOT Prioritization:
Significant impact on the Nation, metropolitan area or region
State of Good Repair / Economic competitiveness
Livability / Environmental sustainability
Safety / Job creation / Near-term economic activity
Innovation / Partnership
Ready to implement: grant award must be obligated by
9/30/2013
Equitable geographic distribution: no more that 25% to single
state; no less than $140 million to rural areas
Previous Project Awards – Local
Port of Miami Rail Access FL
$22,767,000
Parramore BRT, Orlando FL $10,000,000
Port Manatee Marine Highway FL (rural)
$9,000,000
Previous Project Awards – Nat’l
Atlanta Streetcar GA $47,667,777
Memorial Bridge Replacement
(Portsmouth, NH & Kittery, ME) NH, ME
$20,000,000
East Bay Pedestrian and Bicycle Network
CA $10,200,000
State University Drive Complete Streets
Project (Peach County) GA $1,491,49023