Yay! Microtransit! (… but what if they hate it?)

How do agencies with limited funding connect people with low incomes – and limited access to a car – to jobs and services when operating in areas with topographic challenges and low densities? Let’s explore a few places making it happen! Hear about workforce transportation in a rural community, on-demand service to outlying employment centers and ways to maximize a limited system for maximum rides. Key take-aways: developing service that meets needs without cannibalizing the current transit system, providing a service with decent wait times without breaking the bank, growing ridership with a limited budget and – perhaps most notably – what to do when people don’t want it.

Moderator: Mary Kate Morookian, Transit Planner, Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc., Raleigh, NC
Sean Hill, Executive Director, Kanawha Valley Regional Transit Authority (KRT), Charleston, WV
Don Strickland, Executive Director, Pee Dee Regional Transportation Authority, Florence, SC
Dave Steele, Executive Director, MobiliSE, Milwaukee, WI