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Critical Issues in Human Services Transportation
This information brief is based on the “Fundamentals of Human Services Transportation” online course offered by the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center in the summer of 2020. The course was designed to address both best practices and transportation trends likely to impact human services transportation. The major topics covered in the course are included…
Read more »Volunteer Driver Program Workshop Part 2: Liability and Protection
Click here for the Liability and Protection webinar recording Click here for the presentation slides by Carrie Diamond Click here for the presentation slides by William Henry This webinar will focus attention on volunteer transportation program protection from liability through insurance and program policies. While liability insurance is critical to protect the program and supplement…
Read more »Volunteer Driver Program Workshop Part 1: Volunteer Driver Insurance
Click here for the Volunteer Driver Insurance webinar recording Click here for the Volunteer Driver Insurance presentation slides Volunteer transportation programs provide an essential, often life-enhancing services for older adults and younger people with disabilities in communities across the U.S. However, potential volunteer drivers are sometimes deterred by a concern that their automobile insurance will…
Read more »Partnering Across County Lines – Valley Regional Transit
This case study highlights Valley Regional Transit, the Regional Public Transportation Authority for Ada and Canyon Counties in Idaho. Valley Regional Transit manages contracts for the operation of ValleyRide fixed route bus services and ACCESS paratransit service. ValleyRide bus services consists 21 fixed-line routes in Boise/Garden City, three fixed-line routes in Nampa/Caldwell, and six intercounty…
Read more »Coordination in a Rural County – Altran
This case study highlights Alger Transit Authority (ALTRAN), a transit authority located in the City of Munising, Alger County, Michigan on the southern shore of Lake Superior and home to the world-famous Pictured Rocks National Park/Lakeshore. ALTRAN provides demand response service, first come-first served, except for the Marquette routes that operate on a scheduled deviated fixed-route. ALTRAN strives…
Read more »Partnering to Fill Gaps in the Houston Area – RIDES
This case study highlights RIDES- Specialized Transportation for Harris County which provides services in Harris County which includes the City of Houston and unincorporated Harris County and provides rides regionally. In 2008, RIDES became part of the newly formed County Transit Division in the Community Services Department where it remains today. …
Read more »Consolidated Rural Transit – Paul Bunyan Transit, MN
This coordination case study highlights Paul Bunyan Transit (PBT) which is a regional transit agency established as a 501(c)3 in 1999. It operates service across a large, three-county area comprised of Beltrami County and the city of Bemidji, Lake of the Woods County and the city of Baudette and Roseau County and the cities of Roseau…
Read more »Small Town, Big Impact – WexExpress
This coordination case study highlights the Cadillac Wexford Transit Authority located in a county of 33,000 people. Coordination with local agencies has allowed WexExpress to provide services through contract or partnership agreement with their buses and volunteer driver program.
Read more »Coordination Connections: WexExpress
NADTC held a webinar on Wednesday, October 14 at 3:00 PM ET, the first in a series of webinars highlighting coordination practices in transportation programs across the country. WexExpress/Cadillac Wexford Transit Authority is a transit system in the northern-lower part of Michigan serving 575 square miles. With buses and a volunteer driver program, they…
Read more »Brown Bag Webinar: Innovations in Accessible Mobility
Click here to listen to the webinar recording Click here for the presentation slides Join NADTC on Thursday, September 10 at 12:30 PM ET for our fifth Brown Bag Webinar. This session will feature 2019 Innovations in Accessible Mobility grantee, Capacity Builders who will discuss the Northwest New Mexico Transportation Alliance Project, as well as…
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