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CASE STUDY: Central Texas Rural Transit District, City and Rural Rides (CARR) Achieves Advanced ITS Coordination in Just Four Months with RouteMatch Software and EPV Group
Results:
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65% paper reduction
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More than 75% productivity savings
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Smooth rural regional implementation
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“We give RouteMatch a five out of five. What took us four months to do has taken many agencies at least one or two years to accomplish.”
- J.R. Salazar, General Manager, Central Texas Rural Transit District, City and Rural Rides (CARR)
Planning any Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) engagement can be perceived as an overwhelming endeavor, but by relying on sound counsel and partnering with a proven technology partner, it can be achieved – even in a short period of four months.
Such was the case for Central Texas Rural Transit District, City and Rural Rides (CARR).
Serving 11 counties across 11,000 square miles, the award-winning rural transit agency sought to improve coordination between its counties and launch a formal ITS project. Because of CARR’s continued increase in ridership, and corresponding increase in inter-county travel requests, CARR needed route and dispatching management tools to act preemptively.
CARR’s main goal was to replace manual scheduling and dispatching processes. The transit agency also wanted to eventually move to a more paperless environment with an integrated automated vehicle location / mobile data computing system. When stimulus funding became available, it was then that the transit agency began working with the Texas Department of Transportation. To peg goals and define criteria for the transit agency’s request for proposals, CARR worked with the Texas Department of Transportation to employ a third-party ITS systems management consultant, EPV Group, to conduct a needs assessment, procure the request for proposal (RFP), and project manage the implementation.
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