County Commission Staff Support on Public Transportation Plans and Programs/ Universal Call Implementation
Riverside County Transportation Commission, Riverside, CA (2007-Present)

Project Evaluation and Monitoring:

AMMA Transit Planning led the Riverside County Transportation Commission's Countywide Universal Call for Projects and assisted Commission staff in evaluating 24 projects requesting funding from a $8 million in FTA § 5316-Access Reverse Commute, § 5317-New Freedom and local sales tax Measure A.  AMMA finalized scoring and evaluation templates, developed initially through the Public Transit-Human Services Coordination Plan originally prepared by AMMA and then refined to reflect emerging Commission priorities. AMMA Transit Planning provided extensive financial and programming analysis to aide decision-making for an oversubscribed Call where funding requested was almost three times that available.  AMMA associate, Roy Glauthier provided considerable support around contract documents, ensuring that Riverside County Transportation Commission's goals were adequately reflected in the agreement language and reporting documents required of successful projects.

Monitoring of these projects involves assistance from AMMA in reviewing regular reporting, periodic on-site visits and general technical support to funded agencies.  Many of these agencies are small human services organizations, some new to transit service operation.

               

                      

                     

Staffing RCTC’s Transit Operators Working Group [TOWG]:

A newly formed group of the County’s public transit providers is staffed by AMMA Transit Planning, augmenting the efforts of Riverside County Transportation Commission's staff.   The County’s larger operators, Riverside Transit Agency and SunLine Transit Agency, are working alongside the smaller public transit providers of Corona, the City of Riverside, Banning, Beaumont and Blythe to develop improved inter-county connectivity.  AMMA is assisting the operators and the Commission in interpreting the Federal stimulus funding packages pursuing grant opportunities and monitoring the continuing changes in the statewide funding landscape. 

AMMA Transit Planning, lead consultant, assisted by Transportation Planning & Policy, Roy Glauthier.

ACCESS Service Growth Management and Demand Estimation Model
Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), CA (2003 & 2005)

In response to steadily increasing demand for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) complementary paratransit services, the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) desired a strategic response to manage Americans with Disabilities Act trip growth.           AMMA Transit Planning led an internal working group to foster an integrated planning process, requiring each functional area of the agency to identify and take on responsibilities of managing Americans with Disabilities Act trip utilization. Technical aspects of the study included extensive cost-analyses of the growth in demand and expenditures for Americans with Disabilities Act services.  There was heavy reliance upon the previously developed demand estimation model which detailed impacts of strategies for slowing the otherwise predicted rates of trip growth.    
 
AMMA Transit Planning constructed a strategic process by which Orange County Transportation Authority could contain and control the growth of ADA complementary paratransit trips and budget levels, built from 19 strategic objectives with 64 specific, operational recommendations. These were aggressively implemented and documented impacts which were published by the Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research Record, December 2007, Vol. 2034.