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New Primer on Transit Facilities for Small Cities

 Posted: May 8, 2013
 
Ways to make public transit easier to use – and easier to get to – are spelled out in a new guidebook, Transit in Small Cities: A Primer for Planning, Siting, and Designing Transit Facilities in Oregon.

The new primer addresses dozens of questions faced by small cities seeking to make local transit systems more accessible, more comfortable, and more supportive of such broad community goals as downtown revitalization, economic development, and better mobility for everyone.
 
Where to locate bus shelters? How to integrate them into the community? What amenities (e.g., benches and lighting) to provide? How to make transit stops accessible for everyone, including the elderly, people with disabilities, bicyclists and pedestrians? Where to put park-and-rides – and how to integrate them into surrounding neighborhoods? How to involve local stakeholders in transit facility planning? Where to find funding for transit facilities? These and other questions are discussed in the 77-page primer produced by the Oregon Transportation and Growth Management Program (TGM).

TGM worked with the Public Transit Division of the Oregon Department of Transportation and Parsons Brinckerhoff to develop this primer, which is intended to help small-city transit agencies, local governments, and others working to improve transit facilities. Click here to download the new publication. For more information about the primer – or TGM’s technical services to local governments – contact Constance Beaumont at constance.beaumont@state.or.us.


Grant Opportunity

 Posted: February 22, 2013
 
Rural Formula Program 5311 and Intercity 5311(f) applications and information for 2013-15 is now availble.

 
 

New OPTIS Features Launched - Agency Periodic Report (APR) changes

 Posted: October 4, 2012  

New features were added to the Agency Periodic Report (APR). 


 

Training Announcement: 2013-2015 5310 Program

 Posted: September 26, 2012

Training for the 5310 Program application cycle is scheduled in multiple locations across the state. See the link below for dates, locations, and agenda.

Workshop Locations & Agenda


 

2012 Oregon Public Transportation Conference - September 9–12th

 Posted: July 27, 2012

   Conference Agenda

Public Transit Division Restructures, Better Customer Service to Clients

 Posted: June 1, 2012

A year ago, in response to increasing workload, potential attrition risk and the need to be more proactive in providing leadership and direction in the Oregon Public Transportation Community, the Agency began a project to examine the Public Transit Division (PTD) organization structure.  While our 'silo' program structure provided in-depth expertise on individual programs, technical assistance and provider coordination was lacking and it was difficult to balance workload to resources.

Over the past year, we developed project goals and objectives and interviewed other states, ODOT organizations, FTA personnel, Oregon transportation providers and our own team to investigate customer service models.
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Improve Transportation for People with Disabilities

 Posted: 2012

Please participate in this short web survey, and encourage others to do so!
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/882523/TransitChoices

The Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) is conducting research on what factors are most important to riders with disabilities when deciding which transit mode to use.

The confidential survey results will be part of a national study called Transit Cooperative Research Project B-40: Strategy Guide to Enable and Promote the Use of Fixed-Route Transit by People with Disabilities. The goal is to develop strategies to improve bus and train systems for people with disabilities. DREDF's research partners are TranSystems Corporation, The Collaborative, and KFH Group.

Please take the survey, and encourage others to do so!  Questions?

Recommendations for Funding: Statewide Solicitation for Projects

 Posted: April 1, 2012

Public Transit Division has identified projects recommended for funding.
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OPTIS Online Training

 Posted: March 16, 2012

We are pleased to be able to provide you with an online training opportunity where you’ll learn how to enter periodic reports, request grant reimbursement, track your PTD-funded projects, and more. We created a video of a recent two-day OPTIS training and broke it out into about 15 to 30 minute segments that you can watch at your own pace.
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Transportation Options Scholarships Available

 Posted: 2012

The Public Transit Division (PTD) Transportation Options (TO) program offers sponsorships to events and campaigns that encourage travelers to rideshare, bicycle, walk, use transit, etc. Examples of recent sponsorships are $4,000 to Southern Oregon's 2010 Bike/Walk Summit and $7,000 to point2point's Business Commute Challenge in the Eugene area. It also offers scholarships to TO conferences. For example, Kim Curly of Commute Options for Central Oregon received a scholarship to the 2011 National Bike Summit and then reported the highlights back to the statewide group.

Please contact Alison Wiley with your TO sponsorship and scholarship requests at 503-986-4131 and alison.j.wiley@odot.state.or.us.

BETC Update

 Posted: February 2012

If you are interested in the Oregon Department of Energy's efforts to improve the old BETC program to comply with the requirements for HB3672.
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