SJCOG determines the amount of public transportation funds available for allocation within the cities of Escalon, Lathrop, Lodi, Manteca, Ripon, Stockton, and Tracy, and the County of San Joaquin. Prior to disbursing these Transportation Development Act (TDA) funds, SJCOG must identify any unmet public transit needs that may exist in San Joaquin County. The Unmet Transit Needs (UTN) assessment is developed to ensure that all unmet transit needs that are "reasonable to meet" are met before funds are expended for non-transit uses, such as streets and roads. 

SJCOG, in partnership with local and regional transit providers, held hearings to collect public comments on Unmet Transit Needs for Fall 2021. All comments were considered part of FY 2022-23 UTN assessment.

Staff reviewed comments in March 2022 and has created the first draft of the FY 2022-23 Unmet Transit Needs Assessment for public review and comments. The public comment period begins on May 4, 2022 and ends on June 4, 2022. Comments can be submitted to Joel Campos at Email Joel Campos. The SJCOG Board will vote on a resolution of the findings within the assessment on June 23, 2022.

The final draft of FY 21/22 Unmet Transit Needs Assessment is available HERE.

Unmet Transit Needs comments are welcomed year round! Comments can be submitted to utn@sjcog.org.

  1. What is an Unmet Transit Need?
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"Unmet Transit Needs" are those trips required - but not currently provided and not scheduled to be provided within San Joaquin County - for residents who use or would use public transportation to meet their life expectation.  View our UTN Fact Sheet!

The “Reasonable To Meet” standard is based on several criteria that analyze how 
accommodating that transit need will affect the rest of the transit system that it relates to. If it passes the criteria then it is found reasonable to meet and changes will be made to accommodate the need.

The process is done annually and entails a comprehensive public outreach program and a series of workshops throughout the county to obtain comments on unmet transit needs that may be reasonable to meet. Once the comments are received, the Social Services Transportation Advisory Committee analyzes them to determine if there are any transit needs that meet the adopted definitions of "reasonable to meet" and "unmet transit need" and makes a recommendation of findings to the SJCOG Board. If the Board determines there are unmet transit needs that are reasonable to meet, the affected jurisdiction must satisfy the needs before any TDA funds are expended for non-transit purposes. 

Watch our UTN video today to learn more about the process!