WSDOT Public Transportation is a leader in individual and community mobility by enhancing and preserving the integrated delivery of services, infrastructure, and connectivity. We work with customers to identify needs, develop opportunities, and implement solutions that maximize the value of the statewide transportation system.

The Public Transportation Division  aspires to create an integrated state transportation system where innovative solutions are developed and implemented to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of individual, community and system-wide mobility.

Programs

• Commute Trip Reduction (CTR) Program
  Encouraging people to ride the bus, vanpool, carpool, walk, bike, work from home, or compress their work week, the CTR program helps make the transportation system work more efficiently.
   
• Trip Reduction Performance Program
  Encourages entrepreneurs, private companies, transit systems, cities, non-profit organizations, developers, and property managers to provide services to employees that result in fewer vehicle trips arriving at worksites.
   
• Vanpool Investment Program
  Encouraging increased use of vanpooling by the state’s commuters.
   
• Agency Council on Coordinated Transportation (ACCT) Program
  Identifying and eliminating barriers to coordination, focus on results and establish advocacy for coordinated special needs transportation programs, policies and projects.
   
• Intercity Bus Program
  Encouraging the development of a complete, connected, and direct network of intercity public transportation services.
   
• Rural Public Transportation Program
  Enhancing the access of people in non-urbanized areas to health care, shopping, education, employment, public services, and recreation.
   
• Contracts and Grants Administration Program
  Providing guidance to public transportation agencies on six-year, capital improvement and asset management plans.
  
• Regional Mobility
  Working to improve connections between transit services, and improve the integration between public transportation and the highway system.

Guiding Principles

• Customer Focus and Responsiveness
• Delivering Results
• Fiscal Responsibility
• Accountability
• Respect
• Transparency
• Innovation
• Teamwork