Examining Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices for Addressing Rural Mobility and Economic Development under SAFETEA-LU’s Coordinated Planning and Human Services Framework
Record Type: UTC

In response to changes in Federal requirements for rural transit planning, the Texas State Legislature and the Texas Department of Transportation have recently developed coordinated transit and human services plans for 24 planning regions in the State of Texas. This study evaluates both the processes that have been adopted throughout the state, as well as the types of outcomes that have emerged. Having engaged in perhaps the most comprehensive approach to meeting the revised federal requirements in the United States, the Texas experience in developing coordinated transit and human service plans is particularly useful for identifying opportunities, barriers, and best practices to coordinated rural transit planning, and thus for filling a major gap in the available professional guidance.
Start date: 2008/5/1
End date: 2010/2/28
Status: Active
Contract/Grant Number: DTRT06-G-0044
Secondary Number: 00018
Total Dollars: 100000
Source Organization: University Transportation Center for Mobility
Date Added: 03/07/2008
Index Terms: Public transit, Transit operating agencies, Rural areas, Rural transit, Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users, Economic development, Mobility, Texas,

University Transportation Center for Mobility
http://utcm.tamu.edu
Texas Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
USA
Phone: (979) 845-2538
Fax: (979) 845-9761

Tooley, Melissa S
Phone: (979) 845-8545
Fax: (979) 845-9761
Email: m-tooley@tamu.edu

Texas A&M University, College Station
http://archone.tamu.edu/College/
College of Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
3137 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3137
USA
Phone: (979) 845-1046
Fax: (979) 862-1724

Martin, June
Phone: (979) 862-4620
Email: jmartin@archmail.tamu.edu