Regional Transit Agencies
Description
The ITS Architecture identifies numerous public transportation service providers within the Region: Airport Corridor Transportation Association (RideACTA Shuttle Service–Pittsburgh Airport area); Beaver County Transit Authority (BCTA); Butler Area Rural Transit (BART); Butler Transit Authority (BTA); Fayette Area Coordinated Transportation (FACT); Greene County Demand Response Transit, Heritage Community Transportation (HCT–Braddock); Indiana County Transit Authority (IndiGo); Mid–Mon Valley Transit Authority (MMVTA– Mon River area in Washington/Westmoreland Counties); New Castle Area Transit Authority (NCATA – Lawrence County); Port Authority of Allegheny County (PAAC); Town and Country Transit (TACT – Armstrong County); University Shuttle Services (various); Washington County Transit Authority (WashCTA); and Westmoreland County Transit Authority (WCTA).
The ITS architecture provides a separate identification for three of these agencies whose current or planned deployment of ITS services is more extensive: BCTA, MMVTA and PAAC.
Twelve additional agencies' ITS deployment is more limited. These agencies are included in a generic element "Regional Transit Agencies." These agencies will be identified separately as their ITS services become more fully developed. In special cases such as the regional transit fare payment system – ConnectCard – agency participants have been identified individually within the ConnectCard element even though other ITS functions remain subsumed in the generic element Regional Transit Agencies.