PROPOSAL AND GRANT PREPARATION

Transportation Alternatives has prepared a number of grants for public agencies (City of Carson, City of Santa Monica) and a vast number of proposals for pursuit of its own projects as well as for other private consulting firms and service providers, the latter including:

Grants prepared for public agencies included a series prepared for the City of Carson in the areas of: expanded transit service; paratransit system design; and marketing, safety, security and monitoring. TA's experience in grant preparation originated from TA President Ned Einstein's successful efforts to procure grant funds from USDOT for a two major projects: National Conference on Transit Performance (for Public Technology, Inc., September, 1977), and a study to examine "Barriers to the Diffusion of Innovation within the Transit Industry" (for Smith & Howard, Associates).

TA has, naturally, been more active in preparing and winning awards to conduct many of its own projects--including the proposal to create TAM-USA, originally a U.S.-Yugoslav joint venture company which initially involved $2.5 million in investment capital in exchange for an offset obligation to Combustion Engineering (since acquired by Asea Brown Boveri) equivalent to $50 million worth of hard currency from bus and coach sales in North America. Apart from TAM-USA proposals to agencies such as the California Energy Commission, TA prepared a series of proposals for PTS Transportation's successful award of services from the North Los Angeles County Regional Center and its brokerage of the City of Los Angeles' VALTRANS dial-a-ride program.

Finally, TA prepared successful proposals to conduct technical workshops for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and to conduct planning studies for, and provide system design services to, more than 20 Los Angeles County communities and, most recently, the New Britain (Connecticut) Public Schools.

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