MANSFIELD — Please take 5-10 minutes to fill out the Regional Transportation Public Input Survey.
Your feedback and input is valuable and important. This survey will help identify the transportation needs and barriers you face every day within your county and across county lines.
You can also find the survey on the Richland County Regional Planning website and Facebook page.
To access this survey, please click the link below. The survey will remain open until April 1.
Transportation does not just occur within county lines, nor is it limited to just within a regional boundary.
In recent years, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) began assessing regional coordination to solve a major problem; there was no statewide coordinated transportation planning coverage.
Because of this, ODOT Office of Transit formed 10 regions based on the analysis of travel movement, local demographics, socio-economic data, and existing boundaries for various state programs as well as the current MPO/RTPO map.
The ODOT Office of Transit recognized that in order to address unmet transportation needs and duplications of service occurring across Ohio, something more than the existing single county, fragmented approach to coordinated transportation and Mobility Management had to be implemented.
Richland County Regional Planning Commission (MPO) received funding from The Specialized Transportation Program, FTA Section 5310 – Enhanced Mobility of Seniors & Individuals with Disabilities, to hire a Regional Mobility Planner to work with the counties in Region 5 to develop a Regional Coordinated Transportation Plan. Region 5 consists of 8 counties; Ashland, Crawford, Huron, Knox, Marion, Morrow, Richland and Seneca.
The goal of regional coordination is to help increase mobility and ridership across the state, especially for seniors, people with disabilities and those with low income.
The Regional Coordinated Plan will focus on increasing transportation efficiency, coordination and collaboration from county to county.
Coordination will involve human service agencies, transportation providers, consumers and public officials working together to develop and improve services for individuals unable to provide their own transportation due to disability, age or income.
Access to jobs, medical care and every day essentials continues to be a struggle for many people across the region.
This plan will be used to help provide more rides to more consumers through cooperation, communication, resource sharing, and ensuring that transportation resources funded by local, regional, state and federal programs are well managed.
By filling out this survey, you are helping us address ways to fill transportation gaps and unmet needs throughout our region.