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This section includes informational and technical assistance resources are some of the most highly requested from National RTAP customers within the past year. If you would like any lists of hot topics that were on this page from previous years, please contact info@nationalrtap.org.
The following are selected resources that answer questions posed by users of the National RTAP Resource Center, and respondents to our national surveys of transit organizations.
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Hiring
National RTAP's Applying Good Business Practices: Hiring, Training and Evaluating Employees, 2023
National RTAP's Successful Strategies for Hiring Rural and Tribal Transit Operators webinar, 2023
National RTAP's Transit Manager Toolkit Section on Driver Recruitment, 2024
National RTAP/SURCOM's HR Training Short - Interview Questions eLearning course, 2021
TCRP's Building a Sustainable Workforce in the Public Transportation Industry-A Systems Approach, 2013
TransitCenter's Developing Transit Talent Pipelines, 2024
Transit Workforce Center's (TWC) National Transit Frontline Worker Recruitment Toolkit: Connecting my Community, 2022
TRB's Opening Doors: Including People with Disabilities in the Transit Workforce, 2023
Medical Transportation
CCAM-TAC's Health Care Providers Working to Streamline Transportation Services for Patients, 2022
FTA's Medicaid Transportation Coverage & Coordination Fact Sheet, 2024
National Aging and Disability Transportation Center's (NADTC) Medical Transportation: Multi-Model Approaches to Accessing Health Care Services Toolkit, 2020
National RTAP/NADTC/NCMM's Mobility Management and Veterans Transportation to Healthcare, 2023
RHIHub's Transportation to Support Rural Healthcare, 2025
TCRP's Dialysis Transportation: The Intersection of Transportation and Healthcare, 2019
TCRP's Guidebook and Research Plan to Help Communities Improve Transportation to Health Care Services, 2021
National Transit Database (NTD)
FTA's National Transit Database
FTA's NTD Annual Data Publications Guide and NTD Annual Reporting User Guide
FTA's NTD Frequently Asked Questions
National RTAP's FTA Rural and Tribal NTD Overview and Updates webinar, 2018, and iNTD webinar, 2023
National RTAP's Rural Integrated National Transit Database (iNTD)
National Transit Institute Courses:
- National Transit Database: Annual Reporting for Indian Tribes
- National Transit Database: Rural Reporting
Transportation to Healthy Food
Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH), Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, Metropolitan Area Planning Council, Massachusetts Association of Health Boards (MAHB), and Massachusetts Municipal Association's Municipal Strategies to Increase Food Access, 2013
Rural Health Information Hub's Rural Hunger and Access to Healthy Food, 2025
Safe Routes Partnership's Safe Routes to Healthy Food Report and Action Agenda: Connecting Active Transportation to Healthy Food Access, 2020
Small Urban, Rural and Tribal Center on Mobility. Western Transportation Institute, and Montana State University's, Utilizing Public Transportation to End Food Insecurity in Rural and Small Urban Areas by Providing Better Access: A Case Study of Rural Counties in North Dakota, 2024
TRB's Breaking Barriers to Healthy Food and Healthcare, 2023
Additional collections of resources are contained in our Topic Guides on the following subjects:
Updated July 22, 2025
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