Transit
Key Issues and Strategies
- Aging Population
- Responsiveness to customer service (requests/complaints) and gap analysis
- Responsiveness to customer service (requests/complaints) and gap analysis
- Integrating Land Use and Transportation
- Adopt and follow transit-supportive land uses
- Review policy and code documents to eliminate barriers to transit access
- Track land-use permits that include public transportation/mobility components
- Increased Accessibility/Coverage
- Population within ¼ or ½ mile of transit service, and distance from employment centers
- New federal transportation funding bill that favors public transportation/mobility
- Coordinate with non-traditional groups (health and human services)
- Monitor movements of people and use the information to adjust routes
- Track economic growth around transit decisions
- Education and Marketing
- Communities recognize needs and work together
- Awareness of all transit related issues issues/education
- Gain political buy-in
- Long-Term System-Wide Vision
- Measures to track transportation decisions, funding and impacts at the regional
level
- Measures to track transportation decisions, funding and impacts at the regional
level
- Funding
- Identify permanent funding sources
- Establish funding from all levels
- Explore options for public-private partnerships
- Develop universal tax structure to finance public transportation in all communities
- Community participation and commitment to funding service
- Alternative Fuels/Technology
- Projects should include a description of impacts on the environment, people, jobs
and transit that can be measured
- Projects should include a description of impacts on the environment, people, jobs
and transit that can be measured
- Seamless Regional System
- Regional body that can make decisions about where regional transit funding should be spent
- Multimodal approach and regionalism
- Compare travel times for work trip across modes
- On-time performance
- User-Friendly Transit Service
- Good oversight of operations
- Number of service hours and other operational measures
- Qualitative measures, such as customer satisfaction
- Compare wait times
- Ability to adapt to mobility devices
Learn more about the Transit Committee.
