MTA may refer to:

Organizations

Transportation

Metropolitan Transportation Authority The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a New York state public benefit corporations, public benefit corporation in New York (state), New York State responsible for public transportation in the New York metropolitan area, New York Ci ...

, the public transport agency in the metropolitan area of New York City, United States *

Metropolitan Transit Authority (disambiguation) Metropolitan Transit Authority may refer to: * Metropolitan Transit Authority (Boston), succeeded by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) * Metropolitan Transit Authority (Victoria), Melbourne, Australia * Erie Metropolitan Tran ...

, which may refer to several public transport/transit agencies * Flint Mass Transportation Authority, Genesee County, Michigan * Maine Turnpike Authority, Maine * Manchester Transit Authority, New Hampshire *

Maryland Transit Administration The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is a state-operated mass transit administration in Maryland, and is part of the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT). The MTA operates a comprehensive transit system throughout the Washington� ...

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (abbreviated MBTA and known colloquially as "the T") is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. The MBTA transit network in ...

, formerly Metropolitan Transit Authority * Massachusetts Turnpike Authority * Mendocino Transit Authority, California * Mountain Ash railway station, Wales, National Rail station code * Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority, doing business as

WeGo Public Transit WeGo Public Transit is a public transportation agency based in Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee. Consisting of city buses and paratransit, the system serves Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County. In , the system h ...

, Tennessee *

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA or San Francisco MTA) is an agency created by consolidation of the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), the Department of Parking and Traffic (DPT), and the Taxicab Commission. The age ...

, California *

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA), branded as Metro, is the county agency that plans, operates, and coordinates funding for most of the Transportation in Los Angeles, public transportation system in Los Ang ...

* Mersin-Tarsus-Adana Railway, a defunct Ottoman railway company * Master Top Airlines, a defunct Brazilian airline company

Education

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...

(''Magyar Tudományos Akadémia''), Budapest, Hungary * Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, an Orthodox Jewish private high school in New York, New York, US *

Mount Allison University Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a Canadian primarily undergraduate liberal arts university located in Sackville, New Brunswick, founded in 1839. Mount Allison was the first university in the British Empire to award a baccal ...

, a university in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada * Musical Theatre Academy, a drama college based in London, UK

Other

Metrolina Theatre Association The Metrolina Theatre Association (MTA) is a non-profit organization based in Charlotte, North Carolina, US, established in 1985 to strengthen arts awareness and to be an advocate of the performing arts in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg region. MTA repr ...

, an organization which advocates performing arts in Charlotte, North Carolina, US *

MTA Records More Than (MTA) Records is an independent record label founded by Chase & Status in 2009, specialising in "exceptional" music. The label releases a large variety of music including rap, soul, drum and bass, dubstep and deep house. It has play ...

, More Than Alot Records, a record label *

Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International (MTA), a globally-broadcasting, nonprofit organization, nonprofit satellite television, satellite television network and a division of Al-Shirkatul Islamiyyah, was established in 1994 and launched the wo ...

, a satellite television network *

Move to Amend Move to Amend is a national, non-partisan, grassroots organization that seeks to blunt corporate power by amending the United States Constitution to end corporate personhood and state that money is not speech. The group was created in response t ...

, a U.S. political advocacy organization that seeks to amend the Constitution *

Manufacturing Technologies Association The Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) is a British trade association based in London representing the manufacturing technologies industry. The MTA sits at the core of the engineering based manufacturing sector and as an association wo ...

, a UK trade association *

Market Technicians Association The CMT Association is a non-profit, global, professional association of technical analysts headquartered in New York City, servicing over 4,500 market analysis professionals in around 137 countries. The CMT Association is a global credentialing b ...

, a non-profit organization of technical analysts *

General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (Turkey) The General Directorate of Mineral Research & Exploration of Turkey (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Maden Tetkik ve Arama Genel Müdürlüğü'', commonly known as MTA) is a scientific institution established by the Ministry of Energy and Natural R ...

, known as MTA *

Michigan Townships Association The Michigan Townships Association (MTA) is a non-profit organization based in U.S. state of Michigan. It is one of the largest local government associations in the United States. The MTA was formed in 1953 and now claims nearly 99% of Michigan's 1 ...

, an association of US township governments *

Mong Tai Army The Mong Tai Army (; sometimes transcribed Muang Tai Army; abbreviated MTA), was an insurgent group consisting of soldiers from the Shan minority in Myanmar, founded in 1985 by Khun Sa. It had up to 20,000 armed troops at its peak, and was ...

, an armed rebel group *

Metro Transit Assassins Metro Transit Assassins, also known by the initialism MTA or as Melting Toys Away and Must Take All, is a graffiti street artist collective based in Los Angeles, most famous for its half-mile graffiti "MTA" tag along the concrete walls of the Lo ...

, a graffiti collective

Sports

Maccabi Tel Aviv Maccabi Tel Aviv () is one of the largest sports clubs in Israel, and a part of the Maccabi association. Many sports clubs and teams in Tel Aviv are in association with Maccabi and compete in a variety of sports, such as football, basketball, j ...

, a sports club in Israel **

Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball Club (), known for sponsorship reasons as Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv (), is a professional basketball club based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The team plays in the Ligat HaAl (the top tier of Israeli basketball), and inte ...

, basketball team **

Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club (; ''Moadon Kaduregel Maccabi Tel Aviv'') is an Israeli professional football club from Tel Aviv and part of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Sport Club. Founded in 1906 in Jaffa as the HaRishon Le Zion-Yafo Association, i ...

, football (soccer) team *

Maximum time aloft Maximum Time Aloft (MTA) is a type of boomerang competition involving specially engineered boomerangs. They are launched high, and enter a stable hover. In the official USBAUnited States Boomerang Association competition throwers get five throws, a ...

, a sporting event with a boomerang

Science and technology

* methylthioadenosine, a cofactor in biochemistry *

4-Methylthioamphetamine 4-Methylthioamphetamine (4-MTA), also known as ''para''-methylthioamphetamine (MTA), is a designer drug of the substituted amphetamine class developed in the 1990s by a team led by David E. Nichols, an American pharmacologist and medical chemist ...

, a designer drug of the substituted amphetamine class developed in the 1990s * Material transfer agreement, governing the transfer of research materials between two organizations * Mineral trioxide aggregate, dental material, used in endodontics and vital pulp therapy * MTA (Swedish: ''Mobiltelefonisystem A''), a former manual mobile network in Sweden * ''Medial temporal lobe'' type of

brain atrophy Cerebral atrophy is a common feature of many of the diseases that affect the brain. Atrophy of any tissue means a decrement in the size of the cell, which can be due to progressive loss of cytoplasmic proteins. In brain tissue, atrophy describes ...

. * Mousterian of Acheulean tradition _{( fr)}, a cultural and technological facies of the

Mousterian The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an Industry (archaeology), archaeological industry of Lithic technology, stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and with the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and We ...

Computing

* Cray MTA-2, a supercomputer based on the design of the never-built Tera MTA *

Message transfer agent Within the Internet email system, a message transfer agent (MTA), mail transfer agent, or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. In some contexts, the a ...

or mail transfer agent, software that transfers e-mail between computers * Multi-touch attribution is a form of

attribution (marketing) In marketing, attribution, also known as multi-touch attribution (MTA), is the identification of a set of user actions ("events" or "touchpoints") that contribute to a desired outcome, and then the assignment of a value to each of these events. Ma ...

Multimedia terminal adapter A cable modem is a type of network bridge that provides bi-directional data communication via radio frequency channels on a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC), radio frequency over glass (RFoG) and coaxial cable infrastructure. Cable modems are primar ...

, a combination cable modem and telephone adapter * Multi-Threaded Apartment, a concept used in Microsoft's Component Object Model programming architecture *

Microsoft Technology Associate Microsoft Technology Associate was an entry-level certification that validates fundamental technology skills and knowledge in Microsoft products. MTA exams were designed to assess and validate core technical concepts in three primary areas: Database ...

, a certification scheme run by Microsoft

Gaming

* '' Multi Theft Auto'', a mod for computer games in the PC game series ''Grand Theft Auto''

Other uses

* "M.T.A." (song), or "Charlie on the M.T.A.", a 1959 hit song by The Kingston Trio * Major trading area, a geographic region of the US surrounding a major city; See List of Basic Trading Areas * Mall Taman Anggrek, a shopping center in West Jakarta, Indonesia * Mid-term adjustment, a change in an insurance policy * Military Technical Agreement, treaty ending the Kosovo War in June 1999 * Milk Tea Alliance, an online democracy and human rights movement * Farmall M-TA, a widely-used model in the Farmall M tractor series * UAC/HAL Il-214 Multirole Transport Aircraft, a planned medium-lift military transport