An official website of the POLICY 18: Provide a variety of transit services
This policy states:
Use a variety of transit service types to match transit service delivery to residents’ daily needs based on transit markets.
Actions
- Investment Priority (IP): Actions tagged with (IP) provide direction to regional investment processes directed by the plan. This includes the Regional Solicitation, which will complete an evaluation to determine the appropriate framework and application of these actions to the Regional Solicitation. Actions could be applied in the Regional Solicitation in a variety of ways including qualifying requirements, application categories, or scoring measures. These actions can also apply to other regional highway and transit funding programs. Investment priorities targeted exclusively at local governments are tagged as local planning (see below).
- Local Planning (LP): Actions tagged with (LP) are requirements or guidance for agencies to incorporate into the transportation element of their Comprehensive Plans, corridor plans, transit provider plans, and other plans that are not regional or statewide. Major items are noted but this is not intended to be a comprehensive list. Local planning tag may also indicate actions with potential local investment priorities that would help support regional goals and objectives that are not tied to regional or statewide investment programs.
- Technical Capacity Building (CB): Actions tagged with (CB) are technical assistance and support activities to provide guidance and best practices to agencies that builds regional technical capacity.
- Partner (P): Actions tagged with (P) are activities that support the regional goals and transportation objectives where the plan is directing partners to take a direct lead. This tag applies primarily to regional or state partners; the local planning tag provides direction to local partners.
- Work Program (WP): Actions tagged with (WP) are work program activities, including staff time and consultant studies, to be worked on until the next scheduled update of the plan in five years. These items are necessary to further research and policy guidance to support the region in achieving its goals and transportation objectives. Work program items are listed at the end of each policy. More complete descriptions of work program items are provided in the Imagine 2050 TPP Work Program.
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Met Council | MnDOT | Counties | Cities | Transit | Other |
| 18A. Designate transit market areas and maintain transit service design and performance guidelines to inform general transit system design. Local communities should identify transit facilities and improvement needs associated with their land use plans. Action types: Local Planning Investment Priority |
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| 18B. Use new service delivery models to fill gaps in fixed-route transit service, including microtransit. Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning |
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| 18C. Complete ongoing route performance analysis and service performance monitoring to inform service changes that can adapt to changing land use, demographics, travel trends, or other influences on transit service performance. Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning |
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| 18D. Update service improvement plans regularly to identify opportunities for transit service expansion and major restructuring. Recommended to be updated every five years but local conditions may dictate different needs. Service improvement planning should include substantial engagement with transit riders and potential transit riders. Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning |
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| 18E. Create a microtransit policy framework to establish an understanding of the opportunities to deliver local microtransit services in a consistent manner across regional providers and service models. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Work Program |
