Research Request - Bus Procurement Costs & Awards

[natam1]

Research Question

Single sentence description: Identify federal awards to fund bus purchases and how much agencies pay for them.

Detailed description:

How will this research be used?

What will be achieved or informed? What is the intended impact?

Stakeholders & End-Users

Who is asking the question, and who is the audience?

Metrics

• any specific calculations
• you think will be needed

Data sources

• Cal-ITP data sources:

• External data sources:

• Remaining data source questions:

Deliverables:

Notebook, dashboard, narrative, presentation details.

Timeline of deliverables:

Estimated completion date

[natam1]

could use 5310 funding data for some of this?

[tiffanychu90]

• Press release / our source data: https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grants/fy23-fta-bus-and-low-and-no-emission-grant-awards
• Coordinate with Zachary Karson (Rebel) because they have task order for this

[csuyat-dot]

work continuing on

• Research Task - Refactor: Bus Procurement Cost #1142

[csuyat-dot]

initial work of determining bus cost via fy 23 FTA press release, TIRCP and DGS data is completed.