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Planning a Flex Route Trip
How Individuals can use Flex Routes Video
How Individuals can use Greene CATS and transfer to/from Greater Dayton RTA Video
Reading a Flex Route Schedule
Transfer Points
Xenia Towne Square
- Using Google Maps, type in "Xenia Towne Square Transfer Point" to find location
- Red box with white font letter X is how transfer point is symbolized on Flex Route Map
- Green, Orange, Red, and Yellow meet at the Xenia Towne Square Transfer Point
Park Hills Plaza
- Using Google Maps, type in "Park Hills Plaza Transfer Point" to find location
- Red box with white font letter "P" is how transfer point is symbolized on Flex Route Map
- Blue, Orange, and Yellow Flex Routes meet every 75 minutes at transfer point
Wright State University (WSU)
- Greene CATS Orange Flex Route WSU Student Union time point
- It is same location as Greater Dayton RTA Route 1 at WSU
- Greene CATS Orange Flex Route WSU Student Union time point
- Greater Dayton RTA Eastown Transit Center
- Greater Dayton RTA Wright Stop Plaza
- Greene CATS Red Flex Line uses Bay A or B at Wright Stop Plaza
Definitions of Common Terms
- Flex Route Deviation
- Available up to 1/2 mile from the mapped route
- Reservations are required and are subject to availability
- Open to the public and follows ADA accessibility guidelines
- Scheduling a Flex Route Deviation
- Location
- the place in the community where flex routes travel by
- Time Point
- the location that the flex bus guarantees to pass by at a specific time, listed in flex route schedule, and will stop if someone is flagging them down to board or a rider has requested to exit bus
- the location that the flex bus guarantees to pass by at a specific time, listed in flex route schedule, and will stop if someone is flagging them down to board or a rider has requested to exit bus
- Flag Stop
- the location between time points, along the flex route, that is safe for a driver to allow someone to board bus if they flag or wave at the driver
- Pull-out Time
- the time listed in flex route schedule when the flex bus leaves the time point
- Run
- the complete cycle of one rotation around the time points on the flex route, beginning and ending at a transfer point
- Transfer Point
- location where a group of flex buses meet during a specific time period so riders can transfer between vehicles and continue their one way trip
- Greene CATS offers free transfer at Transfer Points only