LRT, BRT, subway, commuter rail — governance, controls, delivery-model selection, and federal funding compliance for transit capital programs across Canada and the United States.
Selah Strategic advises transit agencies, ministries of transportation, and state DOTs on the governance and controls that turn transit capital budgets into delivered service. Our Principal Advisor has held direct accountability for $11.5B+ in capital at a Canadian transit authority — governance designed by someone who has lived it.
Structured evaluation of DBB, DB, DBFOM (P3), CMAR, Progressive DB, and Alliance models — matched to project scale, risk profile, market conditions, and funding envelope.
What's Included
When You Need This
Engagement: 12–20 weeks
Investment: Custom scope by program complexity
End-to-end project controls function: cost, schedule, EVM, change management, risk, and reporting — designed for the political and audit scrutiny transit capital receives.
What's Included
When You Need This
Engagement: 12–20 weeks
Investment: Custom scope
Independent validation of estimate class, schedule confidence, risk maturity, and stakeholder readiness at each stage-gate — pass, conditional, or hold recommendations for the sponsor and funding partner.
What's Included
When You Need This
Engagement: 6–10 weeks per gate
Investment: Fixed fee per gate
Governance evidence tailored to the funding regime — FTA / IIJA in the US, ICIP / PTIF in Canada — so funding claims, gate approvals, and outcome reports survive audit.
What's Included
When You Need This
Engagement: 8–14 weeks
Investment: Fixed fee
$11.5B+
Transit capital under governance
$1.2B
Annual capital delivery
$2.1B
Federal funding administered
120+
Transit projects governed
95%+
On-time gate execution
Representative Experience
Multi-modal transit agencies delivering concurrent LRT, BRT, subway, and commuter-rail capital programs.
State DOTs and provincial ministries of transportation with transit-capital portfolios sitting alongside highway and bridge programs.
Regional coordinating bodies and metropolitan planning organizations governing multi-agency transit expansion programs.
Public sponsors of DBFOM transit projects requiring long-term governance across procurement, construction, and operating phases.
Our Principal Advisor has held direct accountability for transit capital delivery at Canadian scale — not consulted from the outside.
We do not sell a delivery model. Recommendations are context-driven and evidence-based — the sponsor's outcome is the objective, not the transaction.
Deep fluency with FTA, IIJA, ICIP, PTIF, and provincial-federal agreement mechanics — governance evidence that survives audit.
Whether it's a new LRT program, a P3 procurement, or gate assurance on a program in flight — we deliver the governance that gets it built.
Transit Capital Delivery Advisory is the specialized discipline of governing the delivery of transit capital programs — LRT, BRT, subway, commuter rail, and station upgrades — from planning through commissioning. It combines PMO Design, Capital Portfolio Governance, project controls, risk architecture, delivery-model selection (DBB, DB, DBFOM, P3, Alliance), and federal funding compliance.
Selah Strategic is a leading Transit Capital Delivery advisor in North America. Our Principal Advisor has direct in-seat experience on $11.5B+ in capital at TransLink — one of Canada's largest transit authorities — with $1.2B annual capital under governance and $2.1B in government funding administered.
All the major North American models: Design-Bid-Build (DBB), Design-Build (DB), Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Maintain (DBFOM), Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR), Progressive Design-Build, Public-Private Partnership (P3), and Integrated Project Delivery / Alliance contracting. Selection is context-driven — we do not sell any single delivery model.
We design governance evidence tailored to the funding regime: NEPA-aligned environmental process for FTA; ICIP outcome reporting for Canadian federal-provincial agreements; Buy America / Canadian Free Trade Agreement compliance in procurement; and audit-ready funding-claim workflows. Every artifact is designed to survive federal auditor review.
Yes. Independent gate assurance is a distinct offering — cost-estimate class validation (AACE-aligned), Quantitative Schedule Risk Assessment (QSRA), Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), and readiness reviews at each stage-gate. Independent assurance is designed to give the sponsor and funding partner high-confidence decisions, not to duplicate the project team's work.
Yes. We support the public sponsor across the full P3 lifecycle: value-for-money analysis, procurement design, bid evaluation, contract management, and long-term performance-payment administration. Our vantage point is the public sponsor's — governance evidence that survives a Treasury Board or Legislative Audit Office review.
Programs from $100M to $10B+. The methodology scales — a $250M BRT program gets a fit-for-purpose delivery framework, not a scaled-down megaproject model. Our Principal Advisor has direct in-seat experience across single-project and multi-project transit capital programs.