The Section 5311 grant program's goals are to address the mobility needs of Arizona's rural population by: (1) enhancing access to health care, shopping, education, employment, public services, and recreation; (2) assisting local communities in building effective transit services in rural areas.

Annually, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) allocates federal funds for the Section 5311 grant Program, these are apportioned to the State on a formula basis; providing funding to support the administrative, operating, and capital costs of operating public transit services in rural areas. The state has the primary responsibility to provide for the fair and equitable distribution of funds to qualified applicants. In Arizona, the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), Multimodal Planning Division manages the Section 5311 Grant Program, funding is provided to counties, cities, towns, and Native American tribes to operate transit systems at the local level. Approximately 3.1 million miles of transportation service are provided annually to more than 968,000 passengers. Over 190,000 hours of service are provided by these systems.

Funds may be used for public transit services operating:

• within small urban and rural communities
• among small urban and rural communities
• between small urban and rural communities and Urbanized Areas (cities of 50,000 or more).

Funds are distributed annually through a competitive application process. The application process is kicked off with a series of workshops and webinars that provide guidance on the process in September/October, applications are submitted in December and awards are generally made in July of each year. The program renews every federal fiscal year, October 1 of each year.

In order to provide our 5311 recipients with the most responsive customer service as well as work towards the growth of the rural transit program across the state, ADOT is introducing a new, regionally focused approach to managing the 5311 program. This approach has resulted in three distinct regions in the state : north, central and south regions. Each region has a program manager and number of eligible recipients.

ADOT strongly encourages coordination of services to facilitate the most efficient use of Federal, State and local resources. Our goal is to support the development of a statewidemulti-modal transportation system that is economically efficient and environmentally sound.

 

Participating 5311 Programs:

City of Douglas	Helping Hands Agency (City of Page)
City of Benson	Hopi Tribe
City of Bisbee	Navajo Nation
City of Bullhead City	Tucson RTA
City of Coolidge	Regional Public Transportation Authority (RPTA)
City of Cottonwood	Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
City of Kingman	San Carlos Apache Transit
City of Lake Havasu City	Town of Chino Valley
City of Maricopa	Town of Miami
City of Show Low and Pinetop/Lakeside	Yuma County Intergovernmental Public Transportation Authority
City of Sierra Vista

Program Resources:

5311 FTA Circular
5311 Workshop Presentations
Capital and Facility Procurement Handbook
FY 2009 Section 5311 Annual Report
FTA Funding Apportionments
I speak cards
Title VI Compliance Poster For Transit

 

For inquiries regarding the Section 5311 Program Arizona Department of Transportation Multimodal Planning Division Northern AZ Tracy Young 602.712.7106 Central AZ Sara Allred 602.712.4498 Southern AZ Nicole Patrick 602.712.8947 206 South 17th Avenue, Mail Drop 340 B Phoenix, Arizona 85007

 

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