Coordinated Public Transit / Human Services Transportation Plan

January 2013:
Draft Coordinated Plan Update Available for Public Review and Comment

MTC’s Draft Coordinated Public Transit-Human Services Transportation Plan Update for the San Francisco Bay Area is now available for public review and comment. Comments must be received by March 8, 2013, and may be submitted by e-mail to Drennen Shelton at dshelton@mtc.ca.gov or mailed to:

Attn: Drennen Shelton
MTC
101 Eighth Street
Oakland, CA 94607

Hard copies of the Draft Coordinated Plan Update will also available for public review in the MTC-ABAG Library, located at the address above.

The Draft Coordinated Plan Update is scheduled to be presented with comments to MTC’s Programming and Allocations Committee for Commission adoption in March 2013.

Coordinated Plan Background

MTC is currently conducting an update to the Coordinated Public Transit–Human Services Transportation Plan (the “Coordinated Plan”). This Plan seeks to improve transportation coordination in the region to address the transportation needs of older adults, persons with disabilities, and low-income individuals. The Plan will establish priorities to inform funding decisions for specialized transportation services.

Based on requirements outlined in the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act (SAFETEA), MTC completed a Coordinated Plan in 2007 to identify regional funding priorities for FTA’s Section 5316 Job Access and Reverse Commute program (for low-income populations), Section 5317 New Freedom program (for persons with disabilities), and Section 5310 program (for seniors and persons with disabilities). Since the Plan’s adoption, over $33 million in funding coming to the Bay Area from these programs supported projects derived from the Coordinated Plan.

The Plan update continues to focus on the needs of a broad range of transportation-disadvantaged populations in order to maximize opportunities to improve service coordination between public transit and human service transportation providers, even as these specialized federal programs and their respective coordination requirements have shifted somewhat under the new federal transportation authorization bill, MAP-21.

Coordinated Plan Update Process

To update the original Coordinated Plan, MTC reviewed and updated information on existing transportation resources serving transportation-disadvantaged populations in the region, reviewed and updated transportation gaps faced by these populations, and updated priority solutions and regional strategies to improve transportation service delivery and coordination. In addition, the Plan update adds new demographic data from the Census Bureau; documentation of innovative strategies and best practices from other state, regional, and local coordination efforts; introduces new research on the Bay Area veteran population and their transportation needs; and establishes the designation process for Consolidated Transportation Services Agencies (CTSAs).

2007 Coordinated Plan (MTC Resolution 3787)

The original Coordinated Plan adopted in 2006-7 is can be found here.

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