Regional Transportation Planning

The Calgary Regional Partnership along with its largest urban member, the City of Calgary, has developed a Regional Transit Plan to help develop medium and long-term transit options as part of the Calgary Metropolitan Plan (CMP).  This plan is based on strengthening the core of the transit network, provided by the City of Calgary, as well as extending the reach of existing transit services by linking these core services to regional communities through high-quality bus services and passenger facilities.

The objectives of the short-term Regional Transit Plan are to build the transit market and transit use culture in the regional communities of the CRP by developing customer focused and integrated express bus linkages, local transit services, transit hubs/centres, and transit-supportive land use initiatives in the vicinity of these hubs and in the overall regional communities.  The long-term plan includes rail transit links (commuter rail or LRT) to Airdrie, Chestermere, Cochrane, Okotoks and High River, and six LRT lines in Calgary, with enhanced cross-town bus rapid transit corridors.

Regional Transit is one of the key project areas that will form the basis for the Calgary Metropolitan Plan's priority implementation work over the next 12-18 months by being the catalysts for initiating and integrating regional servicing delivery, infrastructure systems and land use planning.  The Regional Transportation project will also be considering sustainable transit funding, transit governance and the establishment of urban transit expertise.  The project team have recently submitted a transit proposal in response to the provincial government announcement for 2 billion dollars in Green Trip program funding. 

Specialized Transportation

This project, better known as Alliance for Simplified Services in Specialized Transportation (ASSIST), seeks to provide a range of options for communities to serve the unique specialized transportation needs of the region's residents, as well as to develop sustainable solutions to meet increased future demand. 

Please click here to link to ASSIST's website for more information