APTA supports efforts to better understand potential options and approaches for public transportation funding.  The folllowing documents provide detail on elements of funding within the transit program as well as informaiton on potential funding strategies.

• House Proposal Erodes Credit Ratings, Ties Hands of American Communities - February 2012
• New Appropriations Bill Saves Transit Jobs -- December 2011
• Road Pricing, Tolling, Mega-Projects, and other Multi-Modal Opportunities:  Strategically Positioning Public Transportation -- A study of the various forms of road pricing as techniques for transportation finanace, by William D. Ankner
• APTA Primer on SAFETEA-LU Transit Funding Provisions -- provides extensive detail on current and historic funding levels by program.
• The Benefits of TEA 21 Funding Guarantees
• SAFETEA-LU: An APTA Guide to Transit-Related Provisions
• State and National Public Transportation Needs Analysis (2008) -- APTA's funding recommendations are based in part on a national transit needs assessment which provides detail on capital funding needs over the next 20 years.
• Survey of State Funding for Public Transportation (2010) -- provides a summary of state level transit funding. Information includes funding sources, amounts, program, eligible uses and allocation, and per capita state transit funding for fiscal year 2008.  Fiscal year 2007 version here.
• Impacts of the Financial Crisis on the Transit Industry: Challenges and Opportunities (April 2009)