For several years, El Paso County Transit Services, now rebranded as El Paso Transportation Authority (ETA), has sought to expand and enhance transportation services for all in El Paso County beyond the City of El Paso transit provider’s (Sun Metro) service area. This has included operating fixed-route services (ETA Transit) and Americans with Disabilities (ADA) complementary paratransit and premium service (ETA Access).
With the goal of expanding the reach of public transit in unserved parts of the County (i.e., beyond the service areas of ETA Transit and Access and beyond Sun Metro’s service area), ETA has retained the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) to explore the need for and feasibility of implementing a community demand response transportation (DRT) service — or a network of different types of DRT services – to address this need.
