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
Dave Steele, Executive Director, MobiliSE, Milwaukee, WI