Use of federal assistance for private-operator capital cost in UMTA's (Urban Mass Transportation Administration's) Entrepreneurial Services Challenge Grant Program

Technical Report · Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5052085

Dynamic changes in travel patterns stepped up the need for alternative transit service. The explosive growth of employment in the suburbs and the increasing number of city-to-suburb and inter-suburban trips have created 'new markets' that require more flexible and smaller-scale approaches than those provided by large centralized transit systems. UMTA has developed a program to respond to these 'new market' needs--The Entrepreneurial Services Challenge Grant Program (ESCGP). It features start-up capital costs support to entrepreneurs and supports the cost of a provider's own equipment purchase or lease (instead of UMTA buying vehicles and leasing or donating them to a provider). The idea behind the ESCGP is to help start new private transit services that can eventually operate without public subsidy. The program is directed toward two groups: equipment lessors and the entrepreneurial transit service providers. The report presents the ESCGP in detail and illustrates its application through case studies.

• Research Organization: Price Waterhouse Co., Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5052085
• Report Number(s): PB-90-120171/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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