
SEAGO is required to update the Human Services Transportation Coordination Plan each year. This plan helps identify the future needs of each transit service area, and how we can better serve the Region through transit programs.
Download the SEAGO Coordination Plan Update 2010
SEAGO provides technical assistance to SEAGO member entities, and local private non-profit organizations through a contract with the ADOT Public Transportation Division. This funding is used for transit operations throughout the region.
For information on transit activities in the SEAGO region, and other areas in Arizona contact SEAGO’s Transportation Program
The primary means of assistance from SEAGO is through the Section 5310, Elderly and Persons with Disabilities Program ,Section 5316, Job Access Reverse Commute – Job services transportation, Section 5317 New Freedoms – Special Needs population, and the Section 5311, Rural Public Transportation Program.
ADOT and Arizona Transit Association (AzTA) has partnered to provide a comprehensive rural transit needs study, and has been released as of March 2008. If you would like to download the document click on the link below.
2008 Rural Arizona Transit Needs Study
The Section 5310 Program is a “Capital Assistance” program that provides funds to meet the special transportation needs of elderly persons, and persons with disabilities.
Anyone wanting to submit an application for a 5310 vehicle (or equipment), must first submit a ‘letter of intent’ to SEAGO’s transportation department.
SEAGO manages the annual application process for the Section 5310. Applications are usually available in February, and SEAGO hosts an application workshop each year to assist potential applicants with their applications.
Applications submitted to SEAGO are rated and ranked, and the results submitted to ADOT with a priority listing and recommendation for funding. ADOT has the final say on which applications are ultimately funded.
Section 5310 Handbooks and Applications can be downloaded from the Public Transportation Division Website. Remember, the new applications may not be available until February or March.
The Section 5311 program provides funding for public transportation in non-urbanized areas. Non-urbanized areas are classified as having under 50,000 in population.
Applications for Section 5311 grants are submitted by the applicant directly to the ADOT Public Transportation Division each year, usually in April. SEAGO reviews all Section 5311 applications, and routinely sits on the statewide Section 5311 evaluation committee.
Section 5311 Handbooks and Applications can be downloaded from the Public Transportation Division Website
SEAGO’s transportation staff is available to assist applicants with their Section 5311 applications, if desired.
JARC is a program under the Federal Transit Administration of the US Department of Transportation. The purpose of the JARC grant program is to assist states and localities in developing new or expanded transportation services that connect welfare recipients and other low-income persons to jobs and other employment related services. Job Access projects are targeted at developing new or expanded transportation services such as shuttles, vanpools, new bus routes, connector services to mass transit, and guaranteed ride home programs for welfare recipients and low-income persons. Eligible applicants include private non-profit organizations, State or local governmental authority, and operators of public transportation services including private operators of public transportation services.
Eligible activities for Job Access grants include capital, operating and planning expenses of services, equipment, facilities, and associated capital maintenance items related to providing access to jobs.
The purpose of the New Freedom grant program is to encourage services and facility improvements to address the transportation needs of persons with disabilities that go beyond those required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Funds are available to support the capital and operating costs of new public transportation service targeted toward people with disabilities or public transportation alternatives that go beyond those required by the ADA.
Eligible recipients include private non-profit organizations, State or local governmental authority, and operators of public transportation services including private operators of public transportation services.
Local Transportation Assistance Fund II, or LTAF II, is funds generated by the State Powerball earnings, and distributed to each county and city within Arizona through an application awards process. Arizona’s Governor’s office has reallocated the LTAF II and LTAF I away from transit for 2011 forward. Therefore, until further notice, no LTAF funding will be available to transit for operations.
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Section 5310 and 5311 Handbooks and Applications can be downloaded from the Public Transportation Division Website
