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https://doi.org/10.3141/1841-06

http://scholar.google.com...enry&publication_year=2003

A research study developed recommendations for activities to consolidate single-county rural public transportation systems into regional multicounty transit systems in North Carolina. The study identified opportunities from regionalization of public transit services, examined barriers to integration and consolidation of transit systems regionally, evaluated best practices from case study sites, and made recommendations for programmatic and legislative changes to facilitate the implementation of regional transit systems in both metropolitan and rural areas of the state. Emphasis is on the rural component of the study, in summarizing regionalization issues and recommendations for the consolidation of rural single-county into multicounty transit systems. Consolidation of rural public transportation systems into regional entities is another step in further coordinating public transportation services in the state. However, there is a public transportation system now operating in all 100 North Carolina counties. Therefore, the thrust of regionalization will be to consolidate existing rural transportation systems into regional entities. There are key programmatic and legislative aspects of interest to state departments of transportation, transportation planners, and policymakers. Case studies also gathered information from associated state department of transportation staff, to include both the state and local perspectives on regional rural transportation systems.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1841, Transit: Bus, Paratransit, Rural Public and Intercity Bus, New Transportation Systems and Technology, Capacity and Quality of Service.

English

p. 54-61

2003

Transportation Research Record

0309085780

Tables (2)

Best practices; Case studies; Consolidations; Implementation; Legislation; Programming (Planning); Recommendations; Regional planning; Rural transit

Barriers to implementation; Regional transit systems

North Carolina

Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Research

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Nov 14 2003 12:00AM

• ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR PARATRANSIT CAPACITY AND QUALITY-OF-SERVICE ANALYSIS
• BUS RAPID TRANSIT: SYNTHESIS OF CASE STUDIES
• CLIENT REFERRAL, RIDERSHIP, AND FINANCIAL TRACKING (CRRAFT) TRANSIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: CRRAFTING A BRIDGE TO COORDINATED INTERAGENCY TRANSPORTATION
• DATA CHALLENGES IN DEVELOPMENT OF A REGIONAL ASSIGNMENT: SIMULATION MODEL TO EVALUATE TRANSIT SIGNAL PRIORITY IN CHICAGO
• DEVELOPING COORDINATION POLICIES FOR PARATRANSIT AND THE TRANSPORTATION DISADVANTAGED
• ESTIMATION OF BUS DWELL TIMES WITH AUTOMATIC PASSENGER COUNTER INFORMATION
• EVALUATION OF SERVICE RELIABILITY IMPACTS OF TRAFFIC SIGNAL PRIORITY STRATEGIES FOR BUS TRANSIT
• FLORIDA METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION REPORTS ON TRANSIT CAPACITY AND QUALITY OF SERVICE: FIRST-YEAR EVALUATION
• GENERATING TRANSIT PERFORMANCE MEASURES WITH ARCHIVED DATA
• IMPACT OF BUSES ON HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE: CASE STUDY FOR NEW JERSEY STATE
• INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY ELEMENTS AND OPERATIONAL METHODOLOGIES FOR SHARED-USE VEHICLE SYSTEMS
• MEASURING UNMET NEEDS OF INTERCITY BUS TRANSPORTATION
• U.S. SHARED-USE VEHICLE SURVEY FINDINGS ON CARSHARING AND STATION CAR GROWTH: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES