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1 Transportation infrastructure -- including local roads and highways, transit, and pedestrian and bike infrastructure -- is critical for providing access to jobs, services, and health care. In rural areas, the availability and quality of transportation infrastructure is so deficient that it adversely affects rural residents.
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2 Access to Jobs, Economic Opportunities, and Education in Rural Areas express difficulty in finding these types of workers because they tend to face greater transportation barriers. In rural areas, access to educational facilities -- particularly institutions of higher learning, like colleges and universities, which are often concentrated in urbanized areas -- also tends to be limited.
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Summary 3 The research for this project focused on the five organizational challenges where there are opportunities for change. Rural areas often lack central transportation agencies, such as a metropolitan planning organization for planning and a transit agency to provide ride services.
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4 Access to Jobs, Economic Opportunities, and Education in Rural Areas Planning Process The research team identified five steps in the rural transportation planning process where organizations can address access constraints and challenges. These steps range from setting goals around access improvement to monitoring short-term activities and long-term outcomes (see Figure S-2)
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