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The Partnership for Sustainable Communities Livability Principles provides an important framework to approaches supporting sustainable rural communities. However, the relationship between the broad Livability Principles and rural transit may or may not be apparent to rural transit practitioners, stakeholders and policy makers. Through a literature review of 62 documents exploring rural issues and trends, rural area transit delivery and livability, a vision for rural livability was developed with outlined opportunities for rural transit to impact the vision. The vision for rural livability was used as guidance in crafting “Relationship to Rural Transit Livability Statements” for each of the six Livability Principles. The Relationship to Rural Transit Livability Statements are meant to provide the connection between the Livability Principles and Rural Transit. The statements are aimed toward providing practitioners, stakeholders and policy makers with a tool to guide in developing performance measures, vision and mission statements, coordination plans, and future policies affecting rural transit and communities.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP055 Rural Public and Intercity Bus Transportation.

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English

21p

2013

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Maps; References (69) ; Tables

Communities; Policy making; Public transit; Rural areas; Sustainable development; Transportation planning; Travel behavior

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-3290

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 5 2013 12:40PM