We are updating our Human Services Transportation Plan to refresh our understanding of the mobility needs and barriers of those who don’t drive due to age, income, or disability, and appropriate strategies for meeting those mobility needs. This 2026 update lays the groundwork for important implementation funding over the next four years.
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A Human Services Transportation Plan, or HSTP, is the product of coordinated planning among public transit, tribal transit, non-profit, and Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) providers working to meet the mobility needs of those who cannot drive due to physical or financial reasons. The HSTP is especially concerned with the mobility needs of seniors, people with disabilities, and people living in poverty.
The HSTP includes an inventory of transportation providers and the services they offer as well as an assessment of mobility need for targeted populations in the Clallam-Jefferson-Kitsap-Mason County area. In this way barriers and gaps in service that point to unmet transportation needs can be understood, and regionally appropriate mobility strategies identified to meet those needs.
Mobility strategies recommended in the HSTP are used to evaluate funding priorities for statewide Consolidated Grants awards, so it’s important the strategies it recommends are suitable to this region’s needs. Providers develop project proposals that address one or more mobility strategies in the HSTP, vying for statewide competitive funds to support established mobility strategies.
PRTPO is responsible for maintaining an HSTP to support WSDOT’s Consolidated Grants process, and updates it about every four years. The Executive Board adopted the 2022 HSTP update in October 2022. It was amended in December 2022 and December 2024 to include results of the final evaluation and ranking of Consolidated Grants projects for WSDOT. The 2026 HSTP update is underway and scheduled for adoption by PRTPO in October 2026.
View the updated plan in your choice of formats, an interactive StoryMap of the draft plan or a traditional pdf document of the final plan. And let us know what you think!
Spend a few minutes watching a virtual presentation that provides an overview of the HSTP.
This is a short orientation to PRTPO’s Human Services Transportation Plan. Check it out!
Let us know what you think! Though our public comment period has closed, we still want to know what you think. Please send us an email and share your thoughts on the Human Services Transportation Plan or your own experience in using the services available in the Peninsula Region.
Did you know…?
Human Services refers to a wide range of interdisciplinary social assistance programs ranging from health care to food and shelter to work force training, and more. Services are targeted to individuals and families, and may be provided by public, tribal, nonprofit, or private providers.
Human Services Transportation refers to a broad range of mobility and access services designed to connect people who have special mobility needs with the human services available to them. Transportation services may be provided directly by public, tribal, nonprofit, and/or private providers, or may be supported through education, coordination, financial subsidies, or other means.
