摘要: |
On October 17, 2007, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) convened an expert panel to discuss methods for evaluating the economic development benefits of transit projects. FTA hopes to develop, to the extent possible, a standardized, empirically-based, and rational method for evaluating the potential economic development benefits of project proposals in the FTA Section 5309 Major Capital Investment Program (New and Small Starts). Members of the panel were charged with recommending one or more methodologies for further research, development, and testing that could be applied to forecast the economic development impacts, and the associated benefits, of major transit capital investments. |