Lane Transit District’s mission is to connect the community by delivering passengers and show how healthy transportation systems result in positive outcomes for the community as a whole. LTD is in the planning stage of its Long Range Mobility Plan, also know as Connect 20245, which will guide investments and development over the next twenty […]
Read More… from Driving Connection: A Strategic Plan to Boost Engagement and Ridership with LTD
Lane Transit District (LTD) is the leading public transportation service in the Eugene-Springfield area and has plans to significantly develop their operations by investing in solutions to drive more sustainable, equitable, and accessible transit over the next several years through their Long-Range Mobility Plan (LTD Connect 2045). To ensure that community members are engaged and […]
Read More… from Lane Transit District: Long Term Mobility Strategic Communications Plan
The Transportation Policy class worked with Lane Transit District (LTD) to develop a series of policy proposals developed over a 10-week term intended to provide the basis for developing LTD’s Long-Range Mobility Plan (LTD Connect 2045). The students’ policy proposals provide a vision for the future of an equitable, sustainable, and transformative transportation system in […]
Read More… from Future in Motion: Building Community Through Transportation
This report documents the ideas, methodologies, and proposals produced by students of the Advanced Geographic Information Systems (GIS) class for Lane Transit District (LTD) and the City of Springfield. Project members were given the task of spatially displaying data and performing analyses about LTD system ridership and routes. The scope of the project was open-ended […]
Read More… from A Spatial Analysis of Lane Transit District in Springfield, Oregon
The proposals outlined in this report were a result of collaboration between Lane Transit District (LTD), the City of Springfield, and the University of Oregon Sustainable Cities Initiative during the fall academic term of 2012. Forty-seven students, a mix of graduate and undergraduates from a variety of disciplines, enrolled in the Planning, Public Policy, and […]
In the fall term of 2012, graduate students in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM) at the University of Oregon developed concept plans for an industrial site in Springfield, Oregon. The students were asked to develop a long-term plan for this property, taking into account the context of the neighboring areas and […]
In the fall of 2012, LTD engaged a team of 10 public relations students from the University of Oregon to conduct research to determine why there was such strong opposition to the proposed BRT expansion project along West 11th Avenue in Eugene, and how LTD’s communication strategies and techniques could be improved. Read the final […]
Read More… from Lane Transit District West 11th Expansion Communication Assessment
As a way to commemorate Springfield’s proud history and bright future, design students were assigned to create a new wayfinding signage design. The previous wayfinding design had many redundancies and inconsistencies, so to address this, design students created new and consistent wayfinding design systems. The new signage systems are meant to help citizens and tourists […]