CARTS Transportation Development Plan

Transportation Development Plan

The Capital Area Rural Transportation System (CARTS) has developed a draft Transportation Development Plan (TDP) identifying solutions for improved transportation access, efficiency, and reliability in rural communities in Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Travis, and Williamson Counties.

CARTS tailors services to each of the communities it serves, providing predictable connections between rural areas, to national and local transit systems, and to the metropolitan center of the region. Click the image to the right to Meet the Fleet of existing CARTS vehicles.

Read on to learn more about the TDP process , or click below to view the TDP fact sheet.

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Why develop a TDP?

CARTS delivers transportation across 9 counties for communities with fewer than 50,000 population, which means that the CARTS service area and mobility needs evolve with each census. The TDP will consider 2020 census information and projected growth in the area to recommend :

Adjustments to existing services
Potential new services or amenities
Emerging technologies and strategies to integrate into the CARTS system

Some recommendations in the TDP may be implemented over the next 5 years, while longer-term solutions may be implemented 10 or more years in the future. Putting these solutions in place will require additional funding and coordination with local and regional planning partners.

Process & Participation

As part of the Transportation Development Planning process CARTS and the project team implemented a community and stakeholder outreach process to help define transportation needs in the community and then guide the development of solutions to meet those needs. The outreach efforts included:

CARTS Regional Transit Community Survey – Details the responses of over 400 survey responses.
CARTS Regional Focus Groups – Details the findings from regionally based focus groups with stakeholders from across the CARTS service area.
Individual Stakeholder Interviews – CARTS identified some major stakeholders in the region to be interviewed on needs and potential solutions for passenger transportation in the CARTS service area.
CARTS Employer Survey – Details the responses of frontline staff of CARTS who responded to a survey that asked them to identify current issues and solutions for the future.
Public Open House Events – Describes the finding of the nine open houses conducted in each county of the CARTS region.

Please click to view the results from the Outreach process and participation.

Community & stakeholder outreach results