PSTA receives grant from FTA to make planning and booking trips easier
August 31, 2020 -
The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority received a $120,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration through the Accelerating Innovative Mobility (AIM) initiative to support mobility and innovation in the transit industry. The funds will help integrate PSTA’s Direct Connect program, which connects riders in areas with low-frequency transit service to subsidized on-demand trips, into the Transit app. This project will offer riders a simple way to plan and book trips. With the grant, PSTA will build on that work to make the innovative PSTA Direct Connect program fully accessible from within Transit, PSTA’s official app. PSTA Direct Connect multimodal trips will appear as an option in Transit’s trip planner alongside fixed route bus service and other shared mobility options, and riders will be able to hail their Direct Connect ride from within Transit and make a seamless connection to fixed-route service.