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3. JAUNT, Virginia -- JAUNT, a six-county system, has been in existence for about 30 years, first as a coordinated human service transit program, and now as an operator of public transit throughout its service area.
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Addison County Transportation Resources Organizational Background ACTR, a nonprofit corporation, is the public transit operator for Addison County, Vermont. This 770 mi2 rural county is located about half way between Rutland and Burlington (Figure 4)
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Local match is not a major problem, which gives the system the flexibility to be innovative. One of its most innovative features is how ACTR started commuter service in conjunction with Marble Valley Transit and Chittenden County Transportation Authorities (both innovative small urban systems and both much larger than ACTR)
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2. Optimizing rural resources -- ACTR has been extremely effective in leveraging local funding and bringing millions of dollars of federal funding into the county.
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TRAX has partnered with a wide variety of agencies, businesses, and governments to provide a network of services. These include regional and national businesses, for example, Wal-Mart, a poultry processing plant, the local community college, Greyhound, a variety of human service agencies such as the local Workforce Board, and the fixed-route service in Texarkana.
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Working with another rural transit system, the agency was able to meet the federal insurance requirements in a creative way. TRAX functions as the mobility manager for the region and has its own maintenance facility for its 75 buses.
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Private sector as well as a diverse set of FTA and human service funding now protect the organization. JAUNT, Virginia Organizational Background JAUNT, a six-county rural transit system, had its start in the mid-1970s when it began coordinating human service transportation programs in the Charlottesville, Virginia, area (Figure 8)
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An additional supplementary benefit was leaving these agencies with a higher education/perception of public transportation service availability. The reports simply document what has been learned throughout the work with the JAUNT mobility manager.
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Innovative Ranking Innovation stems from an organizational ability to change. The factors required for change in general business as well as transit were documented in TCRP Report 70 (1)
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TVT then turned all of its resources to the eight counties of rural southwestern Idaho. TVT was forced to reinvent itself and create diversified funding sources to better protect it in the future.
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In tourist areas, commuter service and service geared for tourists are in place. In Mountain Home, the Air Force Base is served along with the community.
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Innovative Spirit ODOT is one of the more innovative and proactive DOTs as it is willing to embrace all modes of transportation and does not focus exclusively on roads. In the rural areas, faced with a need that could not be filled exclusively by the private sector, the ODOT's Public Transit Division is taking advantage of a pilot change in FTA match rules to fund intercity bus service between Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Smith River, California, via White City, Medford, Gold Hill, Grants Pass, Cave Junction, and Crescent City, California (Figure 15)
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[Source: ODOT.] The new bus service is the only regularly scheduled general public transit service connecting the I-5 corridor to the 101 corridor, along the 400-plus miles between Eugene, Oregon, and Williams, California.
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Innovation Ranking Innovation stems from an organizational ability to change. The factors required for change in general business as well as transit were documented in TCRP Report 70 (1)
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