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Providers of rural transit operate with limited budgets, traverse large service areas with low densities, typically operate with less sophisticated technology than their urban counterparts, may have inherited poor service designs, and must stretch to meet service demands with limited staffing. Compounding these challenges is the image problem associated with many rural transit systems -- the service is for human service clients.
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Innovation in Rural Transit Real-world experience teaches us that over the past 30 years, a number of significant transit innovations have come from rural areas. Examples include bus wraps, service routes, coordinated intercity feeder connections, and coordination of Medicaid and human service transportation.
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7 Through the surveys, the consultant's knowledge, and the literature review, a number of potential case studies were selected and narrowed to five. Care was taken to -- • Introduce some systems that have not been extensively studied, • Ensure that different sized systems were represented, • Ensure that diverse regions of the country were represented, and • Include intercity bus.
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