watauga county since 1981 founded october 1981 headquarters 305 highway 105 bypass boone nc 28607 locale north carolina service area boone and appalachian state university with service to rural locations throughout watauga county service type local and student commuter routes 12 fuel type biodiesel operator appalachian state university town of boone watauga county state of north carolina chief executive greg lovins website official website appalcart appalachian campus area rapid transit is a free public bus network located in boone north carolina . it provides free fixed route and paratransit service throughout appalachian state university and boone as well as low fare van service to other towns within watauga county . 1 in 2013 appalcart reported a ridership of 1 712 873 passenger trips . 2 appalcart is governed by an 8 member board . the current chairman of the board is greg lovins . 3 it receives its funding from a mix of federal state local and appalachian state university funds . 4 references edit http appalcart.com sites default files overview010814.pdf http www.hcpress.com news appalcart reports record ridership once again of 1712873 passenger trips in year 2013.html http appalcart.com node 4 http sustain.appstate.edu masstransit external links edit http appalcart.com this article about a bus operating company in the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about transportation in north carolina is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title appalcart & oldid 607894639 categories bus transportation in north carolinabus operating company stubsunited states bus transportation stubsunited states transportation company stubsnorth carolina transportation stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 may 2014 at 10 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view