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

Synthesis Report: Findings and Lessons Learned from the Independent Evaluation of the Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox Demonstrations

• Year: 2023
• Format: Research Report

FTA's Synthesis Report: Findings and Lessons Learned from the Independent Evaluation of the Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox Demonstrations provides a synthesis of findings from the 11 MOD Sandbox Demonstrations…

• Evaluation
• 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

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

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

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

Developing and Maintaining Partnerships for Sustainability

• Year: 2022
• Format: Video

Developing and maintaining partnerships is an important part of growing and sustaining your transportation program. In this video, you’ll learn tips for developing partnerships with community organizations to improve transportation…

• Partnerships
• Promising Approaches
• Sectors

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

Section 5310 and Cycling Without Age Program

• Year: 2022
• Format: Case Study

This case study introduces a unique program for older adults and people with disabilities, to get outside and be active using a trishaw bike. This report highlights the Make the…

• Partnerships
• Populations
• Promising Approaches

Transportation Call Centers and Information & Referral/Assistance

• Year: 2022
• Format: Case Study

This Best Practice highlights successful strategies call centers can use to increase ridership by simplifying the process and increasing trust.

• Partnerships
• Promising Approaches
• Technologies

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

Electric Vehicle Maintenance Best Practices

• Year: 2022
• Format: Article

This best practice spotlight article on electric vehicle maintenance, prepared collaboratively by National RTAP, Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC), and Transit Workforce Center (TWC), provides recommended practices and case studies from…

• Promising Approaches
• Technologies

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

This All Started with Carsharing: Mapping the Shared Mobility Ecosystem – #SUMC2022 Breakout Panel

• Year: 2022
• Format: Seminar

Mary Ferguson (Program Manager, Shared-Use Mobility Center) moderated this panel on carsharing with Arnd Bätzner (Member of the Board of Directors, Mobility CarSharing), Justin Romeo (Director of Special Projects, Regional…

• Partnerships
• Promising Approaches
• Technologies

Travel Training Instruction using FTA Section 5310

• Year: 2022
• Format: Case Study

This case study provides an overview of the various programs available to people who want to learn how to ride the bus, which is often the biggest fear or barrier…

• Populations
• 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

Using COMPASS to Navigate Cecil County, MD

• Year: 2022
• Format: Case Study

Transportation is a key and a barrier to economic mobility in communities across the United States. Communities with robust transit systems help people access jobs and services at affordable costs.…

• Funding
• Partnerships
• Promising Approaches