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... This chapter discusses those issues. AN IMPORTANT PRECURSOR The VA has recently increased its attention to transportation services for veterans by establishing a Veterans Transportation Service (VTS)
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... . TCRP Report 144: Sharing the Costs of Human Services Transportation, Transit Cooperative Research Program, Transportation Research Board, The National Academies, Washington, DC.
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... . TCRP Report 101: Toolkit for Rural Community Coordinated Transportation Services, Transit Cooperative Research Program, Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC.
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... 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.
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... STUDY VETERANS' TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS IN OTHER COUNTRIES Some people believe that transportation services for veterans in the United States could be improved by studying transportation systems for veterans in other countries. Turkey and Israel have been mentioned several times as countries that have particularly effective transportation programs for their veterans of military service.
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  • transportation services
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