Stakeholders
The Regional ITS Architecture resulted from the consensus input of a diverse set of stakeholders, encompassing traffic, transit, public safety, and many other operating agencies at local, state, and national levels. It includes both public and private sectors and spans the organizations that manage, support, or are impacted by the surface transportation system, with particular focus on agencies that operate transportation systems in the region.
| Stakeholder | Description |
|---|---|
| Academic / Research Organizations | Academic and research organizations that assist public agencies with transportation planning, research, and studies. Kentucky Transportation Center at the University of Kentucky is the largest transportation research institute in the region, and the research group is employed by KYTC. |
| American Red Cross, Bluegrass Area Chapter | American Red Cross, Bluegrass Area Chapter: Operator of the WHEELS demand–responsive service in the Lexington–Fayette area that provides demand response transit services in the area. |
| Bluegrass Community Action Partnership | Rural and small town transit provider (Section 5310) for Jessamine County that provides demand response transit services. |
| Demand Response Transit Providers | Demand Response Transit Providers operating in the region. |
| Federal Highway Administration | Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a Federal agency with the broad responsibility of ensuring that America's roads and highways continue to be the safest and most technologically up–to–date. FHWA provides financial and technical support to State, local, and tribal governments for constructing, improving, and preserving America's highway system. |
| Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration | Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the federal agency responsible for motor carrier safety. |
| Federal Transit Administration | Federal Transit Administration (FTA) administers public transportation including buses, subways, light rail, commuter rail, monorail, passenger ferries, trolleys, inclined railways, and people movers. FTA provides financial assistance to state and local transit providers for developing new transit systems and improving, maintaining, and operating existing systems. FTA is a sister agency to FHWA. |
| Federated Transit Services of the Bluegrass (FTSB) | Federated Transportation Services of the Bluegrass, Inc. (FTSB) is a non–profit agency incorporated in 1981. FTSB is a public transportation provider and Medicaid broker for thirteen counties. FTSB provides Medicaid brokerage services for Fayette, Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer, Oldham, Bullitt, Henry, Trimble, Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas, Madison, Montgomery, Powell, Estill and Clark Counties. FTSB provides public transportation in Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas and Rowan Counties, and a job transportation route in Lewis County. FTSB also offers an InterCity Bus Service to Lexington for riders in Bourbon, Harrison, and Nicholas Counties as well as riders in Morehead. |
| Hospital Organizations | Regional Hospital Organizations – Represents hospitals and trauma centers in the region. |
| Jessamine County | Represents Jessamine County which is south of Fayette County in the Lexington Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. |
| Kentucky Emergency Management | Kentucky Emergency Management is the state level agency charged with protecting life and property, public peace, health, safety and the environment of the Commonwealth of Kentucky through an all–hazards approach to mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery from disasters and emergencies which a local emergency response agency determines is beyond its capabilities. |
| Kentucky State Police | Kentucky State Police is the state level law enforcement agency protecting the public. Post 12 covers Fayette County. Post 7 covers Jessamine County. |
| KYTC Central Office | Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is the state level agency responsible for the planning, designing, building, and maintaining the transportation infrastructure in Kentucky. Central Office is located in Frankfort located in Franklin County which is within District 5 of KYTC. |
| KYTC District 7 | Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is the state level agency responsible for the planning, designing, building, and maintaining the transportation infrastructure in Kentucky. District Seven oversees the construction and maintenance of highways in twelve central Kentucky counties, including Fayette and Jessamine Counties. District staff coordinate all aspects of road building, from planning, design, and right–of–way purchasing to administering construction contracts and ensuring the highways are maintained for travelers including pothole patching and mowing to snow removal. |
| Lexington and Fayette County Parking Authority (LFCPA) | Parking agency that operates under the authority of the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government. Agency operates public parking facilities within Lexington–Fayette County. |
| Lexington Area MPO | The Lexington Area Metro Planning Organization (MPO) is the federally designated transportation planning agency for Fayette and Jessamine Counties. The MPO is responsible for the comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous transportation planning process for the region. The MPO monitors present–day transportation needs and trends and coordinates with community partners on transportation issues, plans, projects and programs. |
| Lextran | Lextran is the Transit Authority of the Lexington–Fayette Urban County Government. Lextran operates a fleet of 73 buses, including a University of Kentucky campus shuttle service, and contracts a door–to door Paratransit service through Red Cross WHEELS. |
| LFUCG | Lexington–Fayette Urban County Government is the local government units supplying goods and services in support of the transportation infrastructure. |
| MAASTO | Mid America Association of State Transportation Officials. |
| Media | Media represents the information systems that provide traffic reports, travel conditions, and other transportation–related news services to the traveling public through radio, TV, and other media. |
| Neighboring Cities and Counties | Counties and Cities that are adjacent to Fayette and Jessamine Counties. |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides weather, hydrologic, and climate information and warnings of hazardous weather including thunderstorms, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, winter weather, tsunamis, and climate events. It provides atmospheric weather observations and forecasts that are collected and derived by the National Weather Service, private sector providers, and various research organizations. The interface provides formatted weather data products suitable for on–line processing and integration with other ITS data products as well as Doppler radar images, satellite images, severe storm warnings, and other products that are formatted for presentation to various ITS users. |
| Private Fleet and Freight Operators | Private owners of commercial vehicles |
| Railroad Companies | Railroad Companies |
| Towing and Recovery Providers | Towing, Recovery, and Cleanup Service Providers. This includes Roberts Heavy Duty Towing Inc. |
| Travelers | Travelers are the motoring public operating private, commercial, or public conveyances. |
| Various Owners | Various regional public and private organizations supplying goods and/or services in support of the transportation infrastructure. This group of owners include event promoters, financial institutes, private information service providers, etc. |