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Ongoing Studies and Projects
Statewide Transit Plan
The Office of Planning is currently monitoring the development of a Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan. One of three major components of this effort is a Statewide Transit Plan. The Statewide Transit Plan will have, as its ultimate work products, short-range, regional transit plans for each of state’s ten planning regions, and a long-range, statewide plan that will guide South Carolina’s transit activities into the future. The regional plans will define action items that are supportive of the needs and goals for that particular region, and advance the common goals for transit on a statewide basis. The regional plans will identify steps that can be taken regionally in the short term to advance the longer-term statewide goals. The strategies developed in the regional plans will be oriented to implementation over the coming five to ten years.
The statewide plan will be more visionary and focus on strategies and action items for South Carolina transit in general, in the areas of service, financial capital and policy needs. The Statewide Mass Transit Plan will also have a strong linkage with the Statewide Corridor Plan. Both elements will address the potential for implementing new modes of transit services and/or expanding existing services.
Final planning documents will be available on this website as they are produced. Please refer to the Links and Resources page for a recent presentation on the plan’s findings to date.
Statewide Human Services Transportation Coordination Plan
Among the major studies undertaken by the Office of Planning is the development of regional Human Services Transportation Coordination plans for each of the state’s ten planning regions. The most recent transportation bill authorized by Congress, SAFETEA-LU, created a requirement that locally-developed, coordinated public transit/human service transportation coordination processes and plans be developed in order to receive funding for certain FTA programs aimed at meeting the needs of older individuals, persons with disabilities, and low-income persons. Complete plans, including coordination with the full range of existing human service transportation providers, are required by federal fiscal year 2008.
SCDOT partnered with the state's Councils of Governments to develop ten regional coordinated plans that meet the requirements of SAFETEA-LU. While at a minimum the FTA formula programs for Sections 5310, 5316 and 5317 must be derived from a coordinated plan, the coordinated plans incorporated activities offered under other programs sponsored by Federal, State and local agencies, including FTA’s Section 5307 and 5311 programs, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Vocational Rehabilitation, Medicaid, Community Action (CAP), Independent Living Centers, and Agency on Aging (AoA) programs.
The development of the coordinated plans is not meant to replace the efforts currently under way in specific areas of the state, but in those cases can be used to document and where necessary expand on those efforts in a consistent format. The coordinated plans were developed to address intra- and inter-regional needs and issues, and in a manner that allows the COGs to adapt and expand the plans to incorporate programs and initiatives specific to their regions, while maintaining the uniform format.
You can access copies of the state’s ten regional human services transportation coordination plans and an Executive Summary incorporating the commonalities from all regional plans below.
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SC Coordination Plans - Executive Summary
SC-PlansSummary.pdf (59kb)
Appalachian Regional Coordination Plan
Appalachian.pdf (854kb)
Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Regional Coordination Plan
BDC.pdf (511kb)
Catawba Regional Coordination Plan
Catawba.pdf (648kb)
Central Midlands Regional Coordination Plan
CentralMidlands.pdf (608kb)
Lowcountry Regional Coordination Plan
Lowcountry.pdf (910kb)
Lower Savannah Regional Coordination Plan
LowerSavannah.pdf (748kb)
Pee Dee Regional Coordination Plan
PeeDee.pdf (575kb)
Santee-Lynches Regional Coordination Plan
SanteeLynches.pdf (604kb)
Upper Savannah Regional Coordination Plan
UpperSavannah.pdf (778kb)
Waccamaw Regional Coordination Plan
Waccamaw.pdf (611kb)
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