About Us
About Kidder Transit
Offering transportation services to the citizens of Kidder County
Kidder County Transit has three vehicles that travel throughout Kidder, Burleigh, Stutsman and Wells counties each month. The transit vehicles transport riders for medical, meals, social, shopping and other appointments or events as needed. We have increased our trips, hours, and miles because of increase in ridership needed for medical services such as physical therapy, dialysis, outpatient surgeries, medical appointments, socializing and community events. The agency networks with the public through advertising, community involvement, and communication to inform them of the services in our agency. We strive to improve our services and encourage the public to use them. The need for more medical services has increased the ridership, hours and miles due to medical facilities days of operations and services. Our winter did not have a negative effect on services
Our Mission
Our Mission
“To promote good health, provide education and
preserve independence.”
preserve independence.”
Who We Are
Who We Are
Kidder County Council on Aging is a nonprofit organization, and was incorporated under North Dakota Law in 1978. The Transportation program started at that time with a 12 passenger van and in 1981 replaced the van with a 21 passenger bus. Kidder County Council on Aging was the grantee of the Older Americans Act of 1965, a federal enhancement program and was the operating board for the Nutrition and Transportation Programs under Title III funding.
Due to growth and development, the Nutrition and Transportation Programs were combined in 1985 and the services became Kidder County Senior Services. Services continued to grow and in 1992 the Active Seniors Club of Steele purchased the former USDA Building and renovated the building to become the Steele Senior Center. In 1995, Emmons County joined the service which then became Kidder Emmons Senior Services.
3 - 5 Year Plan
3 - 5 Year Plan
In planning our 3-5 year plan, the agency developed a set of goals that will be used to promote the growth of the transit system and to provide a base for the manager and board to proceed.
Goal 1: Assuring residents that transit services are available
• Provide areas that transit is not met with services
• Identify if the service schedule is viable
• Identify if service area needs to be expanded
• Determine if frequency of service needs to be increased
Goal 3: Coordination and Transit Service
• Work with other transit providers to coordinate services
• Network with groups within service area to explore interest in events
• Explore the use of smaller vehicles
• Explore the service area and route schedule
Goal 2: Increase Marketing Efforts and Transit’s Visibility
• Increase the availability of information regarding routes and schedules
• Provide information at bus pickup locations
• Utilize outreach to educate the residents and visitors
• Create a marketing program to promote ridership
• Develop a system transit map to advertise on local cable TV
• Network with organizations and agencies to advertise transit
Goal 4: Performance
• Monitor route performance
• Identify the performance of the schedule to needs of ridership
It is the agency’s goal to increase ridership and routes. The transit service has increased the general public ridership and will continue to target the general public to utilize the service. The agency will be promoting the transit service through surveys and reaching the residents with advertising using our local utility company. Brochures and promotional items will be widely spread throughout the county and the transit vehicles will be more widely visible to our residents in Kidder County.
Attention will be given to the transit schedule and route to determine if they are still functional or if changes need to be made as our needs change in the county. The agency will assess the need for vehicles and where most of the need in the county is for location of vehicles. The agency will be updating vehicle/vehicles in the next year and office computers in the next 3-5 years so they are adaptable.
The transit service area is increasing with businesses and changes in our school system. Our economy will be a huge factor in accessing the needs for transit services. According to the ND 2010 Population Projections: 2005 to 2020, Kidder County has a population of 2435. Population over 60 averages 656. The general public averages 1779. The average age is 44.5 years and person per square mile is 2.0. As a rural transit area, the transit service travels many miles in between towns and cities.
The agency feels that there is a need for transit services in Kidder County and ways to keep the service in operation.
Kidder County Public Transit
202 1st Ave NW, Steele, ND 58482, United States