, the organizational structure, relationship between supervisory ministry and the government and Transport Corporation could hamper the achievement of the objectives of the corporation. These Roles are measured by the organizational contextual, design, process, top management leadership involvement and commitment dimensions of strategic planning systems of public transit agencies and are treated as variables. Then, using structural and measurement equations, the paper develops relationships between the measures, strategic planning characteristics, and internal organizational success of strategic planning, federal legislative requirements and community impacts. Those measures with positive coefficients are used as the Roles of effective strategic planning.