Enhance transit services in rural communities
In rural communities, many individuals struggle to get around without access to a car, which is cost prohibitive for many residents living below the NPPS.
Inclusive partnerships between local and state agencies and residents in rural areas leads to a greater understanding of and solutions to issues faced by the latter.
For agencies not directly engaged in transportation, an awareness of the issues leads to solutions for agency employees living in rural areas, especially those also living below the NPPS.
To get started as a transportation agency:
Ask residents in rural communities in your jurisdiction if they have adequate public transportation.
Invest in affordable bus services, shuttle services, subsidized car share programs, or other services that would solve existing access issues.
Launch a public information campaign regarding transportation assistance options to ensure that those in need can take advantage of the resource.
Best Practices / Innovative Programs
Pelivan Transit is committed to developing a mobility management system that includes area human services, aging agencies, tribes, providers, and businesses that addresses the gaps and barriers in transportation in the northeastern Oklahoma region. The Pelivan Transit system also includes numerous employment routes interconnecting area cities, a trolley loop, education routes for TANF recipients, and various medical routes for area medical facilities in the region. They continually seek to form new partnerships and consortiums for successful enhancements and expansions in transit while also focusing on eliminating gaps and overlaps in current transportation services being provided with a mobility management goal to reach more riders with shared resources. This has led to reduced fares, expansion, and enhancements of transportation services. The leadership of the area governments, tribes, agencies, and business executives of the private industries is shifting the paradigm of multiple stand-alone transportation programs into one of the shared resources and regional mobility management coordination.
The CARTS District is a rural/urban transit district responsible for transit services in a 7200 square mile nine-county area surrounding Austin. The District includes the non-urbanized areas of Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Travis and Williamson counties. CARTS delivers transportation tailored specifically for each of the one hundred and sixty-nine communities it serves and provides predictable connections between these communities to the national intercity bus network, to Capital Metro services and to the metropolitan center of the region.
