Transit

Key Issues and Strategies

• Aging Population
  • 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
    
    
• 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
    
    
• 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.