Collaboration across local public and private sectors created mutually beneficial solutions, build trust, and meaningful opportunity for better transit.
City: Indianapolis, IN
Purpose: Utilize local business leaders to identify regional mobility solutions, opportunities for economic competitiveness, and to organize and coordinate support for local transit investments.
Lead Stakeholders: Indy Chamber, Indianapolis MPO, Indianapolis Mayor’s Office, IndyGo
Process: The local chamber brought together business leaders as a task force in 2009 to analyze possible transportation investments and opportunities, financing mechanisms, and implementation strategies. Centralizing around the role of transit, the chamber of commerce became a local champion for transit funding. Utilizing economic mobility data and storytelling initiatives, the Indy Chamber helped shape and inform community conversations. The Chamber ultimately played a crucial part in organizing and coordinating support for the passage of Indianapolis’s 2016transit referendum.
Outcomes:
- Indianapolis’s 2016 transit referendum expanded transit access to jobs and key destinations through BRT service, high-frequency routes, and longer service hours.
- Provided a catalyst for public dialogue and involvement of residents across sectors to participate in transit decision-making.
View or download PDF of the Indianapolis’s Transit Task Force with Local Business Leaders case study.
