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New Best Practices Spotlight: Fuel Efficient Driving
View our newest best practices spotlight article on fuel efficient driving. The article identifies simple, easy to implement changes in driving behavior that can help reduce costs by improving fuel efficiency. Read our current and previous best practice articles on our site.
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Notes and Recording now available from National RTAP 101 Webinars Series: Title VI Requirements
Thanks to those who joined us last week for our webinar on Title VI Requirements. The presentation and slides have been posted on our Webinars tab.
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National RTAP Technical Assistance Conference
Tuesday-Friday, October 27-30, 2015 in Denver, Colorado
Registration: Register now for the conference and reserve your Westin Denver Downtown hotel room on our Conference Website.
When registering you can also sign up for the following workshops (included in the fee, but require an RSVP) taking place on Tuesday:
- AARP Pedestrian (Livability Index) Workshop
- Intercity Bus Route Development
- National RTAP Web Apps - GTFS Builder
- National RTAP Web Apps - Website Builder
- Tribal Transit Assessment Workshop
Here is a draft agenda - sessions and times still subject to change.
Vendors: Interested in exhibiting? Contact us for more information.
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Federal Transit Administration and US DOT Updates
A Roundtable held by the DOT released its report on how to improve the quality and accessibility of transportation safety data.
The DOT continues to focus on supporting small businesses by celebrating Small Business Day and announcing that last year almost 45% of its procurement went to small businesses. Read more.
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FHWA Livability Metrics Tool
At National RTAP we are always looking for ways to communicate the value of rural transit, explain what it is, and integrate rural needs into planning discussions. FHWA's recent Fostering Livable Communities Newsletter highlights a new web tool, called Community Vision Metrics, that can help in this area. The tool can help with assessing mobility and then that information can be used in the transportation planning processes.
In testing out the Community Vision Metrics tool, we put in mobility > county > rural > transit and got a great list of metrics that should be collected for a transit mobility assessment in a rural area. One metric is the non-single occupancy vehicle (SOV) rate. In rural areas of Eastern Oregon it was between 20% and 36%. (To get that number, use the Journey to Work data from the U.S. Census to get the drive alone rate and subtract it from 100.) For many communities in Eastern Oregon, the carpool rate made up around a third of the non-SOV travel. Many people also walk and ride bikes. These people are doing something different and may be open to new travel options.
This is data you can include in reports and presentations to local/regional governments during the transportation planning process to get them thinking about rural transit and other mobility options, to create a more livable community.
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Resources and News
Publications
Transit Safety information is important for understanding what causes accidents. The NHTSA's Traffic Safety Fact Sheet compares urban and rural traffic incidents and breaks down the predominant causes of accidents in each area.
Opportunities
National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE) Capability Maturity Model Webinar Series starts on August 11 with a session on Organization and staffing. Organization and Staffing is a critical institutional dimension of transit capability. The webinar series will address the identification, development, and maintenance of essential staff capabilities.To learn more, view the Series Fact Sheet.
The Military Transportation Committee (AT035) is accepting abstracts for poster presentations at the TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, January 10-14, 2016. S ubmissions are due August 31. |
