Potential Description of Services: Using the Compositive Vulnerability Index to Identify Need Transportation Connection

This work begins with national research of best transportation service methods that link rural residents with proximate urban areas. Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), Council of Government (COG), transit agency staff will be enlisted to assist with focus groups of rural residents to query their under-met or unmet travel needs

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Proposed
• Funding: $60000
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747135

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Performing Organizations:

  Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2)

  University of Texas at Austin
  Austin, TX  United States  78712
• Principal Investigators:

  Lewis, Carol

  Goodwin, Gwendolyn

• Start Date: 20220101
• Expected Completion Date: 20230731
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Focus groups; Needs assessment; Rural areas; Transportation disadvantaged persons
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01787034
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747135
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Oct 29 2021 3:52PM