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Study Overview TCRP Project H-49, "Improving Transit Integration Among Multiple Transit Providers," set out to accomplish two goals: 1. To conduct original research and prepare a report that identifies and documents the motivations, benefits, and barriers to public transportation coordination and integration that facilitates seamless travel, reflecting the viewpoints of all stakeholders; and 2.
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2 Improving Transit Integration Among Multiple Providers experience in each community, where they conducted several hours of interviews with a wide variety of stakeholders involved in these projects. The case study sites were as follows: • Phoenix Metropolitan Region, AZ • Butte County, CA • Minneapolis–Saint Paul (Twin Cities)
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Summary 3 transit and can generate political leverage for funding and policy initiatives to support enhancing the transit system. These types of benefits can be some of the most elusive and difficult to measure but were widely cited as key benefits by stakeholders across the case studies.
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4 Improving Transit Integration Among Multiple Providers that all participants believe to be fair. Anything short of that risks losing agency buy-in and can undermine the likelihood of project success.
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Summary 5 not have been accomplished without this "grassroots" approach. The failure proves the rule: where stakeholders have felt excluded or not respected, coordination efforts have faltered.
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6 Improving Transit Integration Among Multiple Providers services does not necessarily result in cost savings and can in fact lead to increased costs. This is often because successful transit integration requires effort on the part of individuals at all participating agencies over an extended period of time which comes at a cost of time, money, and other resources.
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