How is capital investment being defined for the TIGGER Program?
For the purposes of the TIGGER project, a capital investment is defined as any eligible expense defined in 49 U.S.C. 5302(a) (1) that will assist in the reduction of the energy consumption of a public transportation system or the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of a public transportation system. This excludes some elements of the statutory definition of a capital project, such as fleet expansion or fixed guideway extensions because these types of projects would increase transit agency energy consumption.
