Connecting Community Transportation: The Transactional Data Specification

• Year: 2024
• Format: Research Report

This research report on the transactional data specification (TDS) and its role in facilitating coordinated demand-responsive transportation (DRT) in projects around the country. This report discusses key takeaways from demonstration…

• Planning
• Populations
• Technologies

Intercity Transportation – Why Connection Points Matter

• Year: 2024
• Format: Webinar

Many intercity bus passengers must transfer to reach their destination—including rural riders. This webinar dicusses the importance of safe, acceptable places to wait between connecting buses.

• Geographies
• Partnerships
• Planning

Living Streets: Redding Bikeshare’s Integration with Public Transit

• Year: 2024
• Format: Case Study

Redding Area Bus Authority (RABA), Shasta Living Streets, and Shasta Regional Transportation Agency created the Redding Bikeshare First Last Mile Bikeshare Pass program. This program offers Redding Bikeshare vouchers for…

• Governance
• Planning
• Technologies

Green Raitero and Green Riderz: Shared Rides in Huron, CA

• Year: 2024
• Format: Case Study

The Green Raiteros initiative represents a community-driven paradigm shift in rural mobility, fostering a transition from individual car ownership to a shared fleet model. Through this approach, Green Raiteros has…

• Partnerships
• Planning
• Promising Practice

Technological Advancements and Interagency Networks in Central Ohio: COTA’s AI-enabled Transit and Traffic Management Platform

• Year: 2024
• Format: Case Study

In 2020, the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA), the transit agency serving the Columbus metropolitan area, received a grant through the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Integrated Mobility Innovation (IMI) program…

• Partnerships
• Planning
• Technologies

Coordination in Planning

• Year: 2024
• Format: Case Study

Maricopa Association of Governments and NADTC worked together to convene a meeting with state and local transportation and non-transportation community stakeholders who play a role in addressing the transportation needs…

• Partnerships
• Planning
• Promising Approaches

Elmira Connections Route Connecting Chemung and Schuyler Counties is Now Up and Running

• Year: 2023
• Format: Case Study

Through National RTAP Community Rides Grant funding, the Elmira Connections became a successful link between rural Schuyler County and the services, educational institutions, and medical sites in Chemung County, NY.

• Funding
• Partnerships
• Planning

Take a RIDE with Me: Highlighting the Adoption of Citywide Microtransit in Wilson, NC

• Year: 2023
• Format: Case Study

Public transit services in American small and rural communities face various challenges today, including low population density, operator shortages, and limited or infrequent coverage. At the same time, these mobility…

• Planning
• Populations
• Promising Approaches

Rural Transportation Management Associations

• Year: 2023
• Format: Webinar

This webinar instructed about how Transportation Management Associations (TMA) can work in rural areas to help employers build reliable transportation networks and how to get started. It covered how to increase access to…

• Geographies
• Partnerships
• Planning

Microtransit vs. Micromobility Series Webinar 3

• Year: 2023
• Format: Webinar

This was the third and final National RTAP/NADTC/NCMM/SUMC webinar on micromobility vs. microtransit and focuses on planning. The City of Lincoln Nebraska discussed its experience planning the VAN LINK StarTran…

• Geographies
• Partnerships
• Planning

Microtransit vs. Micromobility Series Webinar 2

• Year: 2023
• Format: Webinar

This National RTAP/NADTC/NCMM/SUMC Microtransit vs. Micromobility Series Webinar 2, held on March 8, 2023, answered questions including: What is Micromobility? How can it be integrated into existing mobility networks? In…

• Geographies
• Partnerships
• Planning

Microtransit vs. Micromobility Series Webinar 1

• Year: 2023
• Format: Webinar

In this webinar, the Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) presented a framework for what a microtransit service and network should look like in a community. The City of Dublin, Ohio provided…

• Geographies
• Planning
• Sectors

A Universal Mobility Resource

• Year: 2023
• Format: Learning Module

New mobility solutions have provided more options for the public to travel, and transit agencies have increasingly explored these options to enhance their services. Public transit and its riders must…

• Planning
• Policies
• Promising Approaches

The Path to Mobility Interoperability

• Year: 2023
• Format: Toolkit

Since 2021, the Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) has convened a Specs to Standards working group, in partnership with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). In these meetings for the working group,…

• Evaluation
• Planning
• Technologies

Bikesharing

• Year: 2022
• Format: Learning Module

Bikesharing is a form of micromobility where riders are able to rent bikes on a short-term basis for point-to-point trips using a fleet of public or private bikes distributed throughout…

• Planning
• Promising Approaches
• Technologies

Partnerships for Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery

• Year: 2023
• Format: Research Report

The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Synthesis 167: Partnerships for Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery identifies how transit agencies were able to quickly pivot during the pandemic to deploy…

• Partnerships
• Planning
• Promising Approaches

Digital Tools to Facilitate Complete Trip Planning

• Year: 2023
• Format: Learning Module

This guidebook helps readers understand the role technology plays in the Complete Trip concept and how transit agencies should consider this framework in their planning.

• Planning
• Technologies

Our Bus Stops Here Twitter Chat Summary

• Year: 2023
• Format: Article

National RTAP held an #OurBusStopsHere Twitter Chat on January 24, 2023. The chat was moderated by National RTAP Review Board Members Paula Smith, Executive Director, Tri River Transit, WV and…

• Geographies
• Planning
• Promising Approaches

Getting Started: Creating a Vision & Strategy for Rural Transit

• Year: 2022
• Format: Technical Brief

This National RTAP technical brief discusses how by taking the time to involve the community and collectively identify the values, needs, and vision its members have for transportation services, transit…

• Planning

Improving Safety for Pedestrians and Bicyclists Accessing Transit

• Year: 2022
• Format: Learning Module

Improving Safety for Pedestrians and Bicyclists Accessing Transit is an FHWA/FTA guide intended for transit agencies, State and local roadway owners, and regional organizations involved with planning and designing transit…

• Planning
• Sectors
• Technologies

Zero-Fare Transit

• Year: 2022
• Format: Case Study

For several years, zero-fare transit has been a topic of interest among public transportation agencies. Many of the arguments for zero-fare transit–and barriers to its implementation–were made even more compelling…

• Planning
• Policies
• Promising Approaches

Charter Service

• Year: 2024
• Format: Toolkit

The Charter Services section of the Transit Manager’s Toolkit summarizes the federal requirements for Federal Transit Administration (FTA) recipients and subrecipients on providing charter services (transportation provided at the request…

• Governance
• Planning
• Policies

Mobility Hubs to Connect Communities Webinar and Workshop

• Year: 2020
• Format: Webinar

On October 27, 2020, the Shared-Use Mobility Center hosted the “Mobility Hubs to Connect Communities “ webinar and workshop, the first in the Path to the Summit series. The virtual…

• Geographies
• Planning
• Promising Approaches

Case Study: AVs + Rideshare = RAPID, Arlington, TX

• Year: 2021
• Format: Case Study

What do you get when you mix autonomous vehicles (AV) with mobility on-demand (MOD)? RAPID! After piloting two other AV projects and expanding a rideshare program, the City of Arlington…

• Partnerships
• Planning
• Technologies