About the Southwest Kansas Coordinated Transit District
What is the Coordinated Transit District?
The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) has created a 23 county service area called the Southwest Kansas Coordinated Transit District (CTD). The counties in the area include Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Lane, Kearny, Meade, Morton, Ness, Pawnee, Scott, Seward, Stanton, Stevens and Wichita.
The purpose of the CTD is to develop strategies for the provision of transit services throughout our communities that will make the most efficient use of additional funding made available by the state legislature as part of the Transportation Works for Kansas (T-WORKS) passed in 2010.
Regional Strategies:
- Regional routes – that allow multiple providers to coordinate, combine, and share trips, while preventing duplication.
- Coordinated scheduling – that utilizes Global Position System (GPS), vehicle-based tablets, and scheduling software to provide providers with knowledge and details of other trips in their area.
- Mobility management – that gives transit providers a regional resource that facilitates administrative transit connections between transit providers, employers, medical centers, and social agencies.
- Regional governance structure – that provides a framework to make service and funding decisions related to regional transit, including oversight, financial participation, legal context, and regional branding.
- Increased awareness of transit service in the region – that effectively communicate options to the public to inform customers decision-making, focusing on enhancing customer service.
- Create Partnerships – between a diverse group of community organizations to ensure transportation resources are coordinated effectively.
- Improved Communication – that provides stakeholders and providers timely information regarding transportation in the region.
- Develop travel training – that provides new training programs for individual users on awareness, knowledge, and skills of public transportation and alternative transportation options available in the region.