Using Public Transportation to Reduce the Economic, Social and Human Costs of Personal Immobility (1998) / Chapter Skim
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6. Implementation
6. Implementation
Pages 117-126
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IMPLEMENTATION PLAN The key research findings presented in Chapter 2 outlined factors important to the successful use of public transportation to reduce the economic, social and human costs of personal immobility. These key findings are the cornerstone of an Implementation Plan to move this research into practice.
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When her community objected to a large parking structure at the Frui~vale BART station in Oakland, the Chief Executive Officer of the Spanish Speaking Unity Council led a planning process to change that land use decision into one supporting a Transit Village. She also overcame the conventional viewpoint in the political environment, which held that infill development in the inner city is infeasible, by putting together a strong funding package to support the development.
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The definition of mobility management is "an institutional state of mind that emphasizes moving people instead of the mode of transportation." (103) ~ For instance, with Immediate Needs, MTA moves people in a program designed to meet the community's transportation needs rather than attempting to fit those needs into its traditional bus and rail system.
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In designing increased access to lobs and health care. it means steaming outside the transportation field and learning other industries' terminology and key players.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor State and County agencies that correspond to the federal agencies listed above Public transit Public transit agencies' staff and governing boards Divisions of public transit within state departments of transportation APTA and CTAA, and corresponding organizations at the state level Private contractors Consultants and university researchers specializing in public transportation 6-5
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S Conference of Mayors National League of Cities International City Managers Association National Association of Counties National organizations of social welfare and health care professionals Civil rights organizations Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities Organizational Responsibility Disseminating the results of the research is a role for TRB and APTA, as the cooperating organizations that make up TCRP, as well as for CTAA.
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Presentation Materials Slides and overhead materials on the key findings should be developed for use in presentations not only at transportation meetings but also at meetings of health care and social welfare professionals. Methodology Guide The Methodology Guide could be available to order as a manual separate from the full report.
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Training film The roundiable described above could be filmed for wider distribution.
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(104) Crain & Associates, Strategies to Assist Local Transportation Agencies in Becoming Mobility Managers, Transportation Research Board, Report 21 (19981.
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