Transit Spotlights
2022 Pennyrile Allied Community Services
2022 Fulton Transit
2017 Community Action of Southern Kentucky (GoBG)
2017 Bluegrass Community Action Partnership (BUS)
2017 LexTran
2016 Louisville-WHEELS Transportation
2016 Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky
2016 GRITS Transportation
2015 Rural Transit Enterprises Coordinated, I
Federated Transportation Service of the Bluegrass (FTSB)
Sandy Valley Transportation System
Clarksville Transit System
TARC of Louisville
Hopkinsville Public Transit
Fulton County Transit Authority
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2022 Pennyrile Allied Community Services
2022 Transit Spotlight - Fulton Transit Kenney Etherton
2019 Kentucky Public Transit Conference
Owen County Most Efficient Award for Low Cost per Mile
Daniel Boone - Outstanding Grant Administrator Award
Fulton - Outstanding Public Transit Award
Glasgow - Outstanding DBE Achievement Award
PACS _- New / Expanding Service Award
Lex MPO - Outstanding Public Transit Award
PATS - Outstanding Public Transit Leadership
RTEC - Outstanding Public Transit Staff Award
FTSB - MVP - Pam Shepherd
BUS - Best Subcontract Submission for FY '20
GRITS - Best Complaint Reporting Award
Sandy Valley - Shining Light Award
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June 3, 2019
The Office of Transportation Delivery is currently developing its three year participation goal. Once approved, the goal will be in effect for three years beginning October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2022.
The DBE goal and its methodology will be made online at:
https://transportation.ky.gov/TransportationDelivery/Pages/default.aspx.
Comments will be made available from June 21 – July 22, 2019. Additionally, the information is available for review at the
KYTC Main Office, Monday – Friday 8am – 4pm (EST) located at:
200 Mero Street Frankfort, KY 40601
Written comments can be submitted via email or mailed to:
Kelley Johnson
Office of Transportation Delivery Kentucky Transportation Cabinet 200 Mero Street
Frankfort, KY 40601
Kelley. Johnson@ky. gov
2016 KPTA Executive Board recognized at the 2016 Mini-Conference.
2014 KPTA was awarded the State Leadership Award
Kentucky Public Transit Association Receives 2014 State Leadership Award
Saint Paul, Minn. –The Kentucky Public Transit Association (KPTA) was awarded the 2014 State Leadership Award by the Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA) at its annual Awards Banquet in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The association was recognized for its tireless and dedicated work to secure investment and support for community and public transportation throughout Kentucky. Beecher Hudson, KPTA’s Director, accepted the award on behalf of the Kentucky Public Transit Association.
The award, presented annually at the Association’s national EXPO, recognizes excellence by a state Department of Transportation or Transportation Association in serving the needs of transit riders, professionals and systems in their state. In presenting the award, the CTAA Board Regional Director Robert P. Koska noted that the organization, “has built a strong relationship at the state level, working directly with the state legislature and governor, which brings together a rare partnership of the state Medicaid and transportation agencies. Successful transit days at the state capital and active involvement with other transit associations around the nation are also hallmarks of this organization’s work.”
The Community Transportation Association, established in 1989, is a national non-profit, membership association committed to removing barriers to isolation and improving mobility for all people. The Association provides informational resources, technical assistance, training and certification, and many additional resources to communities, transportation providers, and other groups to increase mobility and improve the quality of community and public transportation.
Community Transportation Association
1341 G Street, NW, 10th
Floor • Washington, DC 20005
TEL 800.891.0590 • FAX 202.737.9197 • WEB www.ctaa.org
Bourne Inducted into Kentucky Transportation Hall of Fame at KBT
During the Kentuckians for Better Transportation (KBT) Conference on January 10, 2014, Ms. Vickie S. Bourne, Executive Director of the Office of Transportation Delivery was inducted into the Kentucky Transportation Hall of Fame, a well-deserved honor after over 40 year contribution to the success of public transportation in the Commonwealth. A few of the previous inductees include Congressman Hal Rogers, Bert T. Combs, Paul Patton, Calvin G. Grayson, and Patsy Anderson.
Vickie Bourne, Executive Director of the Office of Transportation Delivery, was inducted into the Kentucky Transportation Hall of Fame at the Kentuckians for Better Transportation Conference on January 10, 2014.
Bourne has spent over 40 years in the Transportation Cabinet and Department of Highways. In 1986, Ms. Bourne became the Section Supervisor of the Public Transit Section in the Division of Mass Transportation.
Through technology, she streamlined the entire grant making process and reduced costs and time in processing the grants and managing the funds. She has made sure that all parts of the Commonwealth have access to public or specialized transportation. Under her guidance, public transit now provides over 29 million passenger trips annually in both rural and urban areas. These trips provide Kentucky’s citizens with access to jobs, shopping, education, medical services, etc.
Even before the Federal mandate for all Federal programs to coordinate their transportation services, Bourne worked with the Department of Medicaid Services and key legislators in coordinating and linking human service/Medicaid transportation needs with the Transportation Cabinet’s transportation resources.
Bourne was appointed by then Governor Patton to serve on the initial Empower Kentucky Committee that worked on the details of a coordinated human service transportation system. Bourne helped write the laws and administrative regulations that authorized and still
oversee Human Service Transportation and other public transit programs.
In 1998, soon after the incorporation of nonemergency Medicaid transportation and the
development of the Human Service Transportation Delivery Program, the public transit section of the Division of Multimodal Program (formerly Mass Transportation) was pulled out to become the Office of Transportation Delivery. On November 1, 2001, Bourne was appointed the Executive Director. The coordination, safety, and cost-savings associated with the Human Service Transportation Delivery Program (HSTD) has become a model for other States and has
received national recognition in national media (CSPAN) and in transportation research publications.
The HSTD program not only has saved the Commonwealth millions of dollars, it has increased the reliability and safety of the transportation services provided to our eligible Medicaid recipients and now provides over three million non-emergency medical trips annually.
Kentucky was recognized for being the first State in the entire nation to have an ARRA (American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Stimulus) public transit grant awarded. Bourne applied for these funds as soon as they were announced in order to help improve Kentucky’s public transit infrastructure and to help provide needed jobs. Through the efforts of Bourne, Kentucky has once again been awarded two nationally competitive grants in the amount of $1,655,927 for transportation improvements. These new grants, through the Veterans Transportation and
Community Living Initiative, will work within the Office’s Human Services Transportation Delivery Program to enhance and coordinate access to local, affordable transportation services for veterans, the military, their families and spouses, and our wounded warriors. In the first round, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) competed with 70 other proposals around the country representing $52 million in funding requests and was one of the 55 awarded projects totaling $34.6 million. In the second round, KYTC competed with 81 other proposals around the country representing $41 million in funding request and was one of the 64 projects totaling $29 million.
As the Regional Administrator for USDOT/ Federal Transit Administration Region IV stated in
her praise of Bourne and Kentucky, “Kentucky gets it.” Under Bourne’s leadership, Kentucky Public Transit has accomplished an almost impossible feat – nine years in a row with zero deficiencies found during three Federal Transit Administration (FTA) intense, on-site reviews covering 27 different areas.Bourne was voted one of the first three inductees into the Kentucky Transit Hall of Fame in 1999.
Bourne, throughout her career, has always been the first to arrive at work, rarely taking breaks or full lunches. Public Transit agencies and Federal officials all have her cell phone number and know that they can (and do) call her on any day or at any hour. FEMA even called her on a Sunday to get an assessment of the ice storm disaster in Kentucky in 2009. She stayed in touch with them throughout the crisis. She is truly a “working” Executive Director that is willing to do any job required, whether it is meeting with government or legislative officials or just stuffing envelopes. She will do whatever is required to get the job done, always keeping in mind that we represent the Cabinet and work on the taxpayers’ money.
Other States are frequently seeking information and advice from Bourne. Beecher Hudson,
President of the Kentucky Public Transit Association, has traveled all over this country and he states that other State Transit associations want to know how Kentucky’s association gets along so well with our State DOT. “My answer is always - Vickie Bourne - because she loves the transit agencies in the State and she treats us like a family.”
Bourne still lives in Owen County where she and her family are active in the community. She has been married to Mark Bourne for 40 years and has a married daughter. She is now very proud to be called, “Nana.”
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