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

Mobility Wallets 101

• Year: 2024
• Format: Webinar

A mobility wallet is a card, token, tool, or app that helps facilitate multimodal mobility. Users can find public transit and other forms of transportation, pay for trips, find best…

• Geographies
• Promising Approaches
• 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

Guidebook and Research Plan to Help Communities Improve Transportation to Health Care Services

• Year: 2021
• Format: Report

This report provides a guidebook to help communities improve transportation to health care and research plan to address how community partnerships between health care and transportation can be beneficial.

• Partnerships
• Promising Approaches
• Sectors

Handbook for Examining the Effects of Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Brokerages on Transportation Coordination

• Year: 2018
• Format: Report

This report provides background information and describes the different models available to states for providing non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) for Medicaid beneficiaries.

• Funding
• Promising Approaches

Community Rides Grant Project: Outcomes and Lessons Learned

• Year: 2024
• Format: Webinar

National RTAP administered a Community Rides Grant Program in 2021-2023, which offered up to $100,000 for projects that strengthen transportation partnerships and improve social determinants of health in rural and…

• Funding
• Partnerships
• Promising Approaches

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

Case Study: Mississippi’s Developing Responsible Individuals with Valuable Education (DRIVE) Program

• Year: 2024
• Format: Case Study

This Transit Workforce Center (TWC) case study is about the Mississippi Developing Responsible Individuals with Valuable Education (DRIVE) Program, which uses Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) from the U.S. Department of…

• Funding
• Partnerships
• Populations

Medicaid Transportation Coverage & Coordination Fact Sheet

• Year: 2024
• Format: Fact Sheet

This Fact Sheet was developed for state departments of transportation (DOTs), state Medicaid agencies, and other transportation entities that provide or are exploring Medicaid-funded non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT).

• Funding
• Partnerships
• Populations

Rural and Urban Transportation Coordination

• Year: 2024
• Format: Technical Brief

There are many reasons why rural and urban transportation organizations may want to coordinate. This technical brief prepared collaboratively by National RTAP and Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) describes how to…

• Geographies
• Governance
• Populations

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

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

Shared-Use Paths Best Practices Spotlight Article

• Year: 2024
• Format: Case Study

A shared-use path (also called a multi-use path) is a bikeway, at least 8 feet in width, physically separated from motor vehicle traffic by an open space or barrier, and…

• Geographies
• Partnerships
• Promising Approaches

Resources on Rides for Employment for Older Adults and People with Disabilities

• Year: 2024
• Format: Technical Brief

Transportation enables older adults and individuals with disabilities to access and sustain paid employment or volunteer work activities. Transportation options can vary considerably depending on the geographic area, this TA…

• Geographies
• Populations
• Promising Approaches

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

Homelessness: A Guide for Public Transportation

• Year: 2023
• Format: Research Report

This report provides timely information regarding important lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic on providing transportation to people with disabilities and to older adults during emergencies.

• Partnerships
• Populations
• Promising Approaches

Transportation for People with Disabilities and Older Adults in COVID-19

• Year: 2024
• Format: Research Report

This report provides timely information regarding important lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic on providing transportation to people with disabilities and to older adults during emergencies.

• Partnerships
• Populations
• Promising Approaches

Intercity Bus 101: State of the Industry

• Year: 2023
• Format: Webinar

Intercity Bus 101: State of the Industry discussed recent changes and how to set up states and communities to successfully integrate with the newly emerging industry. Multiple speakers from a…

• Geographies
• Sectors

Collaborative Planning: A Look at the Partnership between Metro Transit and Heartland Bike Share in Omaha, NE

• Year: 2023
• Format: Case Study

Bikeshare is often touted as a practical first and last mile solution, helping people make transit connections when other options are unavailable, unreliable, or slow. Thoughtful integration of bikeshare and…

• Partnerships
• Promising Approaches
• Sectors

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

Coordination Case Studies

• Year: 2023
• Format: Case Study

These case studies, written with assistance and guidance from NADTC’s Coordination Advisory Committee, reflect unique and successful coordination projects resulting in improved, accessible transportation in four locations around the country.

• Geographies
• Partnerships
• Promising Approaches

Challenges and Successes with Shared‐Use Mobility in Rural, Frontier, and Tribal Areas

• Year: 2023
• Format: Webinar

Even as on-demand shared mobility options have expanded in the U.S., most are focused in large metropolitan areas. Issues for developing these services in rural areas can include funding, service…

• Funding
• Partnerships
• Populations

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

Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox Demonstration: Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) Public-Private-Partnership for Paratransit, Evaluation Report

• Year: 2022
• Format: Research Report

This report presents the results of an independent evaluation of the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) Public-Private-Partnership for Paratransit Demonstration project. To increase the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of paratransit services…

• Partnerships
• Promising Approaches
• Technologies

Community Coordination Initiative Lessons Learned

• Year: 2023
• Format: Topic Guide

This report provides an overview of the Lessons Learned from the two selected agencies participating in NADTC’s Coordination Coalition Initiative.

• Partnerships
• Promising Approaches
• Technologies

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

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

Statewide Transit Connections

• Year: 2023
• Format: Topic Guide

Statewide Transit Connections: State-Specific Plans and Documents focuses on reports and plans produced by State DOTs, their transit partners and/or universities. As a group, they address issues specific to a…

• Geographies
• Governance
• Partnerships

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

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