Affordability

This article is one featured in a special edition of Digital Community Transportation (DigitalCT) with a focus on innovative transit leadership. This edition is inspired by the risk-taking and innovation inherent among the leaders profiled in this issue, and the key elements of leadership have been organized into six distinct content areas; this article focuses on the issue of affordability. An important issue that connects transit leaders with elected officials at all levels of government is their ability to explain how and why their services are an affordable investment for their constituents. Two aspects of affordability – efficient operations to justify public investment and the value riders receive from access to mobility options – are important considerations for today’s transit leaders, as evidenced in the featured interviews with community transit leaders. Some of the interviews are in podcasts or videos, with the transcripts included.

• Record URL:
  • http://web1.ctaa.org/webmodules/webarticles/articlefiles/DigitalCT_Feb_13.pdf
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• Availability:
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• Publication Date: 2013-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: pp 35-38
• Serial:
  • Community Transportation
  • Publisher: Community Transportation Association
  • ISSN: 0895-4437

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Case studies; Costs; Interviewing; Leadership; Productivity; Public transit
• Uncontrolled Terms: Affordability
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01491637
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 3 2013 12:28PM