Strategies to Increase Coordination of Transportation Services for the Transportation Disadvantaged (2004) / Chapter Skim
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• Links to other coordination planning resources. PLANNING REQUIREMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH FUNDING SOURCES This section details the planning requirements associated with different types of funding sources that can be used for the provision of transportation service to the transportation disadvantaged -- transit funding programs, human services funding programs, and private foundations.
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Stakeholders that typically participate in the job access planning process include the following: • Transportation officials • Transit agencies and other transportation providers • Agencies administering TANF and Welfare-to-Work funds • Workforce development organizations • Other human services providers • Community and faith-based organizations • Disability groups • Public and assisted housing providers • Child care organizations • Employers and business organizations • Elected officials • Citizens As with the development of the area's UPWP, nontransportation agencies can more effectively and meaningfully participate in the development of the Job Access Transportation Plan by serving on technical or policy committees of the MPO than by attending public meetings. The Job Access Transportation Plan must describe the location of welfare recipients and low-income residents (particuwith an issue -- transportation -- that transcends municipal and state boundaries.
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The examples previously cited suggest that planning requirements related to welfare reform and job access programs and recent federal guidelines regarding environmental justice and Title VI can contribute to an increase in interaction between traditional transportation agencies and human services agencies. Although these relationships can help to foster an increase in sensitivity to the transportation concerns of transportation-disadvantaged individuals on the part of the traditional transportation officials and planners, human services agencies may still not be pursuing traditional federal transportation funding streams through the MPO framework.
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MPOs have staff specifically responsible for overseeing human services planning with these funds. Planning efforts in Arizona and Washington offer examples of transportation planning processes that have been used 44 to develop transportation services for transportationdisadvantaged individuals and to seek funding for those services.
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allocate federal Medicaid funds to the designated Medicaid agency in each state, by formula, for use in providing health care services for individuals and families who meet certain income and resource requirements.1 Each state may design its own Medicaid program, but it must comply with federal guidelines and requirements and be documented in a Medicaid State Plan that is approved by CMS. The TANF program also follows this basic model.
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Kentucky In 1999, Kentucky mandated transportation services to be coordinated through 15 different brokerages that covered all areas of the state. The motivation for coordination was that, although RTAs were in place statewide to receive 5311 and 5310 funds, there was evidence that Medicaid and TANF transportation funds were being abused by both recipients and providers.
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Three state-level agencies -- Family Independence, Michigan Career Development, and Michigan DOT -- work together to coordinate transportation services for former welfare recipients. Family Independence and Michigan Career Development utilize a portion of their TANF funds, and the DOT matches this contribution.
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POLITICAL PROCESSES Support and funding for coordination of transportation services at the federal, state, and local levels can be a crucial factor in the success of local coordination efforts. Equally important is the degree of local public support for public transportation and transportation services for the transportation disadvantaged.
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This effort, which CTAA refers to as its National Transit Renewal Program, aims to secure improvements for CTAA member organizations that are consistent with CTAA's four basic principles: • Investment: Greater federal investment for all community and public transportation programs • Innovation: New and innovative strategies for community and public transportation • Security: Providing communities of all sizes the capacity to respond to natural and national disasters • Building New Partnerships: All regulatory burdens placed on the community and public transportation field must be examined to ensure necessity and efficiency and serve as a foundation for a new partnership between the federal government and public and community transportation CTAA's success in translating these goals, in particular the last one, into federal policies through its National Transit Renewal Program will be an important factor in determining 49 the resources available to continue to further coordination efforts through traditional transportation funding sources. CTAA is also a source of information and tools that local organizations can use to contact elected representatives about issues that affect public transportation providers, especially those that operate community-based or specialized services.
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. Several recent APTA initiatives may be of interest to organizations pursuing coordination of transportation services for the transportation disadvantaged or working to move transportation issues to a higher priority on local planning or funding agendas.
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2 is to highlight the benefits that public transportation generates, build support for public transportation services at all levels, and increase public transportation funding at the federal level. Similar to the outreach campaigns of APTA and CTAA, (PT)
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First, United Way followed up on its survey of Vision Councils with a web-based survey of transportation programs, aimed at identifying the amount expended on transportation services for the transportation disadvantaged in the region and assessing the potential for coordination. Second, the organization has partnered with the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota to conduct two transportation conferences.
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This can be especially helpful in efforts to obtain funding for coordination initiatives. • Although proposed programs that affect the provision of transportation services for the transportation disadvan53 taged (such as the New Freedom Initiative and legislative decisions such as the Olmstead decision, which are discussed in Chapter 6)
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• Planning Guidelines for Coordinated State and Local Specialized Transportation Services, prepared by the 54 Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility, Office of the Secretary, U
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