Strategies to Increase Coordination of Transportation Services for the Transportation Disadvantaged (2004) / Chapter Skim
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Planning, designing, funding, and delivering transportation services for the transportation disadvantaged in a coordinated manner can help to address such problems. At the regional or local level, coordination efforts can involve any combination of partners: public providers of fixed-route transit and paratransit service, nonprofit transportation providers, private transportation companies, and public or nonprofit human services agencies.
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Federal support for the coordination of transportation services was reinforced once more by the funding programs and guidance, for both transportation providers and human services agencies, that resulted from federal welfare reform. Following passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, several separate federal welfare
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At the same time, local transportation providers, which usually have distinct service area boundaries, may not have the operating authority to offer services in those neighboring areas. This creates a particular problem for people needing the mobility that transportation services for the transportation disadvantaged can provide.
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and employment transportation to regional work centers. The need to develop public transportation services that respond to living patterns that are becoming oriented to increasingly larger geographic areas is also a regional issue.
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