As part of the Greater Minnesota Transit Investment Plan, a five year transit plan was developed for 30 rural transit agencies across the state.  As part of the consultant team for agencies in the northeast part of the state, I developed five proposals to improve the lone fixed route operated by Brainerd & Crow Wing Public Transit in late 2018 and early 2019.  These proposals were developed and revised based on feedback from agency staff and other local stakeholders.  In March of 2020, the Brainerd City Council decided to cancel the fixed route and redistribute its resources to the demand-response service that operated elsewhere in the agency’s service area.  Although discontinuing the route was not among the recommendations that my colleagues and myself included in the five year plan, it does appear that the options we did present to the client did play a role in making the final decision to cancel the route.

Other service plans that I have developed include new Ride On bus routes to serve Clarksburg, MD (routes 73, 75, and 79) that were launched in May 2017, evaluations within MDOT MTA’s annual service plan and a proposal to redistribute MDOT MTA’s fleet of articulated buses to the two busiest routes in Baltimore to maximize resource efficiencies, and an evaluation of the DC Circulator’s National Mall route.