native americans on the move challenges and successes

Native AmericansOn the Move

Challenges and Successes

Transit Cooperative Research Program Project H-38

Developing, Enhancing, and Sustaining Tribal Transit Services

Developing, Enhancing, and Sustaining Tribal Transit Services

Overview of Tribal Transit Programs

• Why Tribes Operate Transit Programs

• Tribal Transit Programs

• Challenges

• Overcoming the Challenges

• Why Tribes Operate Transit Programs

• Tribal Transit Programs

• Challenges

• Overcoming the Challenges

Why Tribes Operate Transit Service

We had a member who was a non-traditional college student and needed to take a class to complete her degree in Great Falls, 160 miles away. By riding the bus, she was able to attend the class two days a week and complete the course.

C. John Healy

Fort Belknap

We had a member who was a non-traditional college student and needed to take a class to complete her degree in Great Falls, 160 miles away. By riding the bus, she was able to attend the class two days a week and complete the course.

C. John Healy

Fort Belknap

Why Tribes Operate Transit Service

Jobs

Medical

Dialysis

Education

HumanServicePrograms

Shopping

Tribal Transit Programs

Challenges

Tribal Sovereignty

Challenges

Remote Locations and Low Population Densities

Challenges

Institutional

Roads and Bridges? Social Service?

Challenges

Leadership and Vision

Values

Vision

MissionInitiative

Challenges

Vehicle Maintenance

Challenges

Pedestrian Infrastructure

Overcoming the Challenges

One of our biggest challenges has been to get enough funding to meet the transportation needs.

Corky Sias

Confederated Salish-Kootenai

One of our biggest challenges has been to get enough funding to meet the transportation needs.

Corky Sias

Confederated Salish-Kootenai

Overcoming the Challenges

Bethel, Alaska

Overcoming the Challenges

Coeur d’Alene

Overcoming the Challenges

Fort Belknap

Overcoming the Challenges

Northern Cheyenne

Overcoming the Challenges

Makah

Overcoming the Challenges

Transit has significantly turned around our village. We have employed five people, provided access to jobs for five people, and provide access to the University of Alaska Fairbanks extension and health facilities in Tok.

Howard Mermelstein – Tetlin Village

Project PanelChair:Ms. Emma Featherman-SamOglala Sioux Transit Dr. Frederick J. “Fred” CowieConsultant Mr. Michael FordAnn Arbor Transportation Authority Ms. Cynthia GomezCalifornia Environmental Protection Agency Mr. C. John HealyFort Belknap Indian Community 

Mr. Mark R. HoffmanArizona DOT Mr. Shawn KlemensMenominee Public Transit Mr. John P. SmithShoshone and Arapaho Tribes Ms. Arlene TemplerConfederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

TCRP Senior Program Officer:Mr. Stephan ParkerTCRP Senior Program Officer

Project Panel LiaisonsMs. Cathy MonroeFederal Transit Administration Ms. Lorna R. WilsonFederal Transit Administration Mr. Bernard AlkireMichigan Technological University Mr. Andy CoyleNational Rural Transit Assistance Program Mr. Edward H. Hall, IIIBureau of Indian Affairs 

Mr. Byron BluehorseUniversity of Alaska, FairbanksTribal Transit Assistance Center Mr. Joseph MyersNational Indian Justice Center Ms. Raquelle MyersNational Indian Justice Center

Ms. Vivian A. PhilbanFederal Highway Administration Mr. Richard RollandEastern Washington University 

Project Panel LiaisonsMr. Charles A. RutkowskiCommunity Transportation Association of America Ms. Gwen SaltNational Congress of American Indians Mr. Dennis TrustyUnited Tribes Technical CollegeTribal Technical Assistance Center

Ms. Martine A. MicozziTransportation Research Board

Project Team

LSC Transportation Consultants, Inc.A. T. Stoddard, Principal InvestigatorTangerine Almeida

AECOMDave SampsonJill Cahoon

Peter Schauer AssociatesPeter Schauer

Valerie J. Southern, Transportation Consultant, LLCValerie Southern

Colorado State University TTAP CenterRon Hall