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Enhancing Statewide Travel Options in Washington & Oregon

Learn about comprehensive travel choices, especially in rural areas, through collaboration with ACCT. Access detailed routes, schedules, and stops, and support tourism efficiency. Overcome challenges like ADA-friendly mapping interfaces for future expansion.

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Enhancing Statewide Travel Options in Washington & Oregon

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  1. Washington & Oregon State DOTs Statewide Travel Options Working with Rural Areas: Bringing it all together Marcy Jaffe, Outreach Liaison Agency Council for Coordinated Transportation/WSDOT October 5, 2005

  2. Travel Choices • May include Informal services • in rural areas Seattle Spokane Portland • Fill service gaps • Vast distances

  3. Making Connections…

  4. Need Statewide & beyond WA Agency Council for Coordinated Transportation (ACCT) recognized: • Identifies options: especially for rural areas • Information changes frequently • Many doors and each are the right door • Maximizes opportunities for coordination of social services = efficiency • Supports tourism; Olympics 2010

  5. At a glance…Other tools are available Planner Early phase WA: mid-2006 Oregon 2007

  6. Implementation: On-line • Transit Agencies & Community Providers: data we collect for annual legislative reporting • Complete or phased characteristics • Name/Contact information • Detailed routes, schedules, and stops • Include all modes (private, too) • Allow data collection over time

  7. Data Sharing • Mutual agreement for data shared that: • Describes the data • How it will be accessed • How transmitted • Storage and handling • Intended use • Constraints of use • Security of data • Non-disclosure of data • Confidentiality • Other terms and amendments as necessary SAMPLE

  8. Challenges • Mapping interface that is ADA-friendly • Future roll-out that include more States with varying base maps, etc

  9. Statewide Travel Options Let’s ease your trip! Follow our progress via ACCT website http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ACCT Marcy Jaffe, 360 705 7923 jaffem@wsdot.wa.gov Robin Phillips, 360 705 7929 phillir@wsdot.wa.gov

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