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15 Introduction Planning a successful transit system involves several steps to ensure that transportation needs in an area are being met and that the most appropriate types of services are being used to meet the demand and needs of a population. The best plans for transit services are closely tailored to an individual community's unique needs, skills, and resources.
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16 Developing, enhancing, and Sustaining tribal transit Services: a Guidebook transportation (Head Start, Community Health Representatives, Indian Health Services, etc.) , carpooling or vanpooling resources, human service agencies offering transportation services, taxi services, casino/tourist or employment transport, and others.
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Overview of planning process 17 ber of constituents served in a cost-effective manner. This information allows the tribe to see where transportation needs are already being met, where opportunities for improvement exist, and where transportation needs remain unmet.
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18 Developing, enhancing, and Sustaining tribal transit Services: a Guidebook Helpful information also can be obtained through interaction with other tribes, locally, regionally, or nationally. Peer comparisons with other tribal communities show what other tribes are doing to meet similar transportation needs.
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Overview of planning process 19 Focus groups or workshops should be conducted early in the study process as a public participation tool. Engaging the public and the users of transportation services early in the process is the most effective way to garner this valuable input and set direction before key decisions are made concerning preferred service alternatives.
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20 Developing, enhancing, and Sustaining tribal transit Services: a Guidebook Transit Service Planning Once goals and objectives have been developed to determine what should be accomplished by a transit program, and transit needs and demand have been established for the community, it is time to start planning potential transit services, as outlined in Chapter 7. All of the previous work leads to recognizing the most valuable and productive markets for public transportation in the region.
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Overview of planning process 21 At each step in the planning process, stakeholders and representatives of interested groups should be consulted to collect information on existing services and to set up, maintain, and further a relationship with the community. Examples of stakeholders and interested groups are the various transportation operators in the community; agencies that have responsibility for assisting clients with special needs in employment, education, health care, and other human services; members of the general public; members of the local political establishment (the official representatives of the general public)
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22 Developing, enhancing, and Sustaining tribal transit Services: a Guidebook in the future. The program should be based on a comparison of the system's most recent performance measures to national standards and the performance measures of peer tribal programs, as appropriate.
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Overview of planning process 23 the approach to be used, but should establish desired goals and outcomes. In their responses to the RFP, the consulting firms should propose their approaches to accomplishing the desired goals.
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24 Developing, enhancing, and Sustaining tribal transit Services: a Guidebook Publications Bruun, E Better Public Transit Systems: Analyzing Investments and Performance.
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