10/2 - 10/4 | 2025 GEORGIA BIKE-WALK-LIVE SUMMIT | COLUMBUS
The Pilot Program for TOD Planning provides funding to communities to integrate land use and transportation planning in new fixed guideway and core capacity transit project corridors.
As required by statute, any comprehensive or site-specific planning funded through the pilot program must examine ways to improve economic development and ridership potential, foster multimodal connectivity and accessibility, improve transit access for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, engage the private sector, identify infrastructure needs, and enable mixed-use development near transit stations. The statute also requires that the planning work be associated with a new fixed guideway or core capacity transit project as defined in federal transit statute. Consistent with statutory direction, FTA is seeking comprehensive or site-specific planning projects for a transit capital project corridor. To ensure that planning work reflects the needs and aspirations of the local community and results in concrete, specific deliverables, and outcomes, FTA requires that transit project sponsors partner with entities with land use planning authority in the project corridor.
Only one application per transit capital project corridor may be submitted to FTA. Multiple applications submitted for a single transit capital project corridor indicate to FTA that partnerships are not in place and FTA will reject all of the applications.
