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Regional Transit Breakthrough Team

Team Purpose

Create a regional transit approach to expand and improve delivery of rural transit service.

Start with one or more pilot projects in rural areas.

Eventually, the development of 10-20 transit jurisdictions that would cover the entire state.

Jurisdictions would be defined by travel patterns.

Each jurisdiction would have a lead agency, that would be required to meet a specific level of service and could use subcontractors.

On-call dispatching would be required and would assist with scheduling efficiencies.

Current Status

Three pilots have been meeting since the summer of 2009 and are scheduled to implement an on-call dispatching process by the spring of 2010.

Next Milestones

The current challenge is to have a breakthrough in determining actual costs for current transit activities and then build an accurate and detailed budget for the regional transit effort going forward.

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