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The toolkit for expanding mobility options for veterans would describe how to bring local agencies
and organizations together to develop and implement a comprehensive veterans' transportation
services plan. "Comprehensive veterans' transportation services" means a network of transportation
services responsive to veterans' needs, not only for transportation to medical appointments and
other health care services, but also to jobs, shopping, community services, and all other
transportation needed to ensure the full integration of veterans, especially those who are disabled,
into their communities.
The toolkit should describe options for a lead agency or organization that will take the lead to invite
potential partners (both public- and private-sector agencies and organizations) to the table, including
veterans themselves, to brainstorm and negotiate about how these transportation needs can be met.
The toolkit would also describe the role of the focal point agency as the convener of a dialogue
among these community agencies on how to meet the transportation needs of local veterans and as
the facilitator of a collaborative process in which these agencies develop a comprehensive local
transportation services plan for veterans that they will jointly implement. The comprehensive
transportation services plan should spell out all the resources each of the local community partners
has committed to enhance transportation opportunities for veterans, as well as the specific actions
each will take individually and in collaboration with other local partners to implement the plan.
ASSESS TRANSPORTATION NEEDS OF SPECIAL GROUPS OF
VETERANS
Much more research needs to be done on the transportation needs of a number of special veteran
groups: this work should start with women and tribal veterans. There may be some results from the
2009 National Survey of Veterans that would help point to specific concerns or communities with
specific concerns but, as noted in Chapter 1, there are some serious limitations regarding the breadth
of data from that survey. A national survey of transportation issues faced by veterans would be an
extremely effective resource for contrasting transportation needs of veterans in general with specific
travel needs of veterans who are female or tribal members. Access issues involving all types of
destinations, not just those destinations involving medical care.
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