Rural Transportation Survey Toolkit for the Coordinated Plan: SANDAG’s 2010 Rural Transportation Survey Design Toolkit for Determining Unmet Transportation Needs of Hard-to-Reach Rural Communities

In 2005, the federal government released a funding provision called the Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act—a Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) that includes funding specifically for rural, transportation-disadvantaged individuals. In order for these funds to be disbursed to local communities, the legislation requires that regional planning agencies (Metropolitan Planning Organizations/MPOs) create a locally-developed, Coordinated Public Transit-Human Services Transportation Plan (the Coordinated Plan). Among other purposes, this plan requires MPOs to identify the unmet transportation needs of transportation-disadvantaged populations including seniors, persons with limited-incomes, and persons with disabilities in rural areas, a responsibility previously held by state governments. This year, San Diego’s regional governing body known as the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) is substantially addressing the transportation needs of limited-income, seniors, and disabled rural populations, independent of urban cities, for the first time since the enactment of the bill. With the intention of learning from and improving SANDAG’s survey tool (the first step of the Coordinated Plan), this paper reviews the creation and findings of SANDAG’s 2010 Rural Transportation Survey, and then refines the survey using the recommendations of rural transportation providers and mobility managers. Through this process, this study presents an unmet transportation needs survey design toolkit that MPOs can customize and use to understand their rural, transportation-disadvantaged communities.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Miner, Dillon
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2011-1-23 to 2011-1-27
• Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: DVD
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 30p
• Monograph Title: TRB 90th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Coordination; Economic factors; Financing; Low income groups; Metropolitan planning organizations; Public transit; Regional planning; Rural areas; Social factors; Transit operating agencies; Transportation disadvantaged persons
• Identifier Terms: Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users
• Geographic Terms: San Diego (California)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01337489
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 11-3824
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 21 2011 7:26AM