Lane Transit District Partners with UO’s Sustainable City Year Program

Lane Transit District has engaged the University of Oregon’s Sustainable City Institute’s Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP). The goal of this partnership is to provide research and recommendations for a variety of LTD’s priority projects such as service opportunities that create greater connectivity with smaller Lane County communities, integrate bikesharing into the transit system, and assist with preparation for the 2021 International Association of Athletics Federation (IAFF) World Championships for track and field to be held in Eugene.

“LTD‘s riders and taxpayers have been the beneficiary of the good work SCI and its SCYP have provided to our agency in the past,” said Aurora Jackson, LTD’s general manager. “We believe SCYP will provide valuable and timely information about several LTD priority projects that will contribute to decisions made concerning the future of transit locally and throughout the industry.”

SCYP classes that are directed toward LTD projects may be from varied academic disciplines across the University of Oregon campus. Based on the scope of the projects, classes may include business, design, journalism, arts and sciences, and law. SCYP students, either individually or as teams, are charged with identifying and analyzing a client organization’s opportunities and challenges. Through classroom work, applied learning assignments, and collaboration with the client organization, SCYP students then makes recommendations as to the best course of action to be considered.

LTD worked with SCI’s SCYP on several projects during 2012-’13 school year that connected students to transportation priorities for areas served by LTD, including the cities of Eugene and Springfield.

The LTD-SCI partnership will officially launch in September 2019.