ALL ABOUT SMART PATH
Let’s create a better transit system.
Efficient, accessible, and affordable public transit is essential to a growing and successful region. SMART is teaming up transit experts to create a network of service that will be used as a guide for changes. Our goal is to improve all aspects of the current SMART transit system.
SMART Path is an opportunity to identify, analyze, and prioritize transit improvements that will help create a more efficient, easy to use bus system in Metro Detroit. The project will look for ways to:
- improve the efficiency of the transit services
- increase accessibility throughout the Detroit metro region
- determine improvements the public would like see for all services
The objective is to create the best possible transit services network for SMART riders within SMART’s available budget. SMART Path will help maximize the impact of taxpayer funding for transit by gaining better knowledge of our riders, improve efficiency, and direct transit improvements where they are most needed.
ABOUT SMART
The Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) – established as SEMTA in 1967 was reorganized and renamed SMART in 1989. SMART is Southeast Michigan’s regional bus system helping people connect to work, school, medical appointments, shopping centers, entertainment, and cultural events. SMART provides different types of transit services, each meeting a different need and giving residents the opportunity to get where they need to go. The mission of SMART is to provide the southeast Michigan region with high-quality, safe and cost-effective public transit that meets the needs of all its citizens, including seniors, people with disabilities, choice riders and those that are dependent upon public transit.
SMART currently serves many communities throughout Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. SMART runs 48 fixed routes that connect popular community destinations such as the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Zoo, Henry Ford Medical Center, the Detroit Metro Airport (DTW), Wayne State University, and many more destinations. Job shuttles and Dial A Ride services connect people within the first/last mile to their final destination. SMART small bus, paratransit service includes Connector and ADA service allows seniors and people with disabilities to get to work, medical appointments, school and to other errands.