REGIONAL SPECIALIZED TRANSPORTATION: ASSESSMENT AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Public transportation in the Puget Sound region of Washington State is provided for by seven transit agencies and the state ferry system. Through the Puget Sound Council of Governments, these providers cooperate to improve the regional public transportation system and to encourage intersystem use. This regional cooperation has not yet extended to providing for specialized transportation services. The Puget Sound Council of Governments formed a committee to study regional travel for specialized transportation users to appraise policies affecting specialized transportation and to promote service parity. The existing conditions, assessment findings, recommended policy direction, and implementation actions developed by the study group are reported in this paper. This study included the six-county area of Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Pierce, Snohomish, and Thurston counties, Washington.

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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1292, Specialized Transportation 1991, Proceedings of a Conference, October 28-31, 1990, Sarasota, Florida. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
• Authors:
  • Zarifi, Sina
• Conference:
  • Specialized Transportation 1991, Conference, 1990, Sarasota, Florida, USA
• Publication Date: 1991

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 53-60
• Monograph Title: Specialized transportation 1991; proceedings of a conference, October 28-31, 1990, Sarasota, Florida
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1292
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Evaluation; Public transit; Recommendations; Regional transportation; Transportation planning; Transportation policy
• Identifier Terms: Puget Sound Council of Governments
• Geographic Terms: Washington (State)
• Old TRIS Terms: Special service
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Research; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00611827
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309050731
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 31 1991 12:00AM