Title: INNOVATIVE TRANSIT SERVICE DESIGN AND DELIVERY FOR THE LOWER RIO GRANGE VALLEY, TEXAS
Abstract: Traditional fixed route and fixed schedule transit services typical in large urban areas are frequently impractical and inaccessible for smaller urban and rural areas. Designing transit services to address transit need in small urban/rural communities with limited funds requires creativity, flexibility, and cooperation. This paper describes how public agencies and community leaders met the challenge of developing innovative transit service in Texas. The success of the resulting services has captured the attention of other small urban and rural areas across the state. Using a strategy that combines nontraditional service design and service levels and an innovative governance and funding agreement, the local governments that comprise the Hidalgo County urbanized area in the Lower Rio Grande Valley developed a regional transit system that provides transit to all of the urbanized areas in the county, provides connectivity between urban communities, links rural to urban areas, and provides access to intercity and international transit services.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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