National RTAP is soliciting nominations for Review Board members - state transit officials and rural or tribal transit operators. The deadline is January 31, 2020. The term of office is three years. An individual may nominate themselves for consideration, or any group or individual involved in rural transit can nominate a representative to the board.

National RTAP is pleased to announce three new Review Board members, whose terms began at our fall meeting held in Portland, Oregon on September 19, 2019: Deborah Bach, Colton Brown, and Donovan Gomez.

National RTAP announces the results of the 2019 Rural and Tribal Transit Photo Contest - Transit Through the Seasons.

On August 2, National RTAP released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to update our Scheduling and Dispatching Training for Rural Transit Systems and create a new interactive, eLearning version of the course. The deadline is September 3, 2019.

The Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority (CCRTA) has established the “CCRTA Driver Training Lend and Learn Library.” The library is made possible through a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. CCRTA created the library as a result of requests from several Councils on Aging asking for additional classroom training options to meet their driver training requirements. The Library is a supplement for classroom trainings for when drivers are unable to attend scheduled training p...

The nation's first #RuralTransitDay was celebrated with a Twitter Chat on July 16, 2019, moderated by Kari Banta of Texas DOT, Julia Castillo of HIRTA, and Juanita Risch of Idaho Transportation Department. The chat focused on what agencies are doing to recognize passengers and staff on #RuralTransitDay and through the year, and shared thoughts about challenges and solutions for rural transit.

Senior Technical Director Rob Tassinari, a driving force in National RTAP's history, is retiring at the end of June. Read about Rob's tremendous contributions to the industry - including the development of ProcurementPRO and Rural iNTD, and what it was like to be with National RTAP in its early days.

National RTAP is pleased to announce our newest Review Board member, whose term will begin at our upcoming Spring Meeting in May: Angie Jones, District Manager, Grant County Transportation District (The People Mover), John Day, Oregon.

Two new staff members have joined the National RTAP team: Nelly Cubahiro and Nancy Doherty.

For this year's annual National RTAP Contest, we asked for outstanding rural transit websites. We got 20 great website submissions and are excited to announce the winners!