Metropolitan areas across the country are developing plans to coordinate transportation services that use funding from various federal programs. The focus of the planning is on the transportation mobility of three target groups:

• Elderly persons

• Persons with disabilities and

• Persons from low-income families

In the Akron metropolitan area, this plan is being developed by the Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study, the METRO Regional Transit Authority in Summit County and the Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority in Portage County. The plan will recommend strategies that improve travel mobility by making better use of federal programs to meet the needs of these target populations. 

The development of a successful plan will require collaboration with the three target populations, agencies and advocates serving them and providers of transportation and human services funded by other federal programs. Click on "Project Description" under project documents to get more details on this project.

Use this web site to:

• Make comments on transportation coordination issues

• See other comments that have been made

• Learn about and get involved in planning activities  

• Know when meetings are being held

• Review documents, including a draft plan, when they are available