A microtransit pilot program could soon service Sugar Land through a grant from the Houston-Galveston Area Council.
Sugar Land City Council unanimously approved a grant application to the H-GAC’s Congestion Mitigation Air Quality Commuter and Transit Pilot Program during its May 2 meeting.
The one-year pilot of an on-demand microtransit service, which is an on-demand and shared public transit service using smaller vehicles, is part of the city’s Mobility Master Plan.
The vans would operate in a predetermined, 18-square-mile pilot zone that includes the Sugar Land Business Park, hospitals, grocery stores, Constellation Field, the two Fort Bend Transit Park & Ride lots, Smart Financial Centre, The University of Houston-Sugar Land, and Sugar Land Town Center. Approximately 47,000 residents live within the zone, including the census tracts with the highest number of elderly, car-free or one-car households, according to agenda documents.
