Gwinnett County TDP and Implementation Plan

The transit development plan (TDP) identified short and long-range recommendations to inform Gwinnett County’s 2024 transit sales tax referendum. Today, most of the County lacks transit service, and the existing route structure relies on frequent transfers, which are hard to coordinate on 30–60 minute headways. While Ride Gwinnett has implemented interim refinements and targeted service expansions, this TDP advances a massive, Countywide buildout—spanning fixed-route, microtransit, and high-capacity transit—to address current gaps and meet future mobility needs.

The study provided a short-term development strategy and long-term direction for shaping the County’s transit program to support Gwinnett’s continued growth. The TDP serves as a practical decision tool for officials and residents, outlining future transit needs; the right projects and technologies to meet those needs; and the associated costs and benefits. The plan also evaluated potential funding sources. Guided by extensive public engagement over 18 months, the study built broad support and helped set the stage and informed the County’s 2024 referendum on a new transit sales tax.

With the combination of robust and innovative multimodal data analysis, objective evaluation and project ranking, and information and visualization, we informed and educated stakeholders by holding extensive public and stakeholder outreach and engagement to ensure meaningful input and feedback. We also developed an action-driven implementation plan that provides Ride Gwinnett with a strong foundation to build from and a clear guide to take the next steps.The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the $17 billion TDP, to be implemented over 30 years. Key to this success was a plan that could be implemented—built on robust data and meaningful community input—and that clearly guided near- and long-term actions.