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5. Compendium of Public Transportation Practices to Address Immobility
5. Compendium of Public Transportation Practices to Address Immobility
Pages 81-116
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Similarly, practices in the section on Coordination could also be placed in the Filling Mobility Gaps section, but are called out separately for their emphasis on collaborating with health and human service agencies. Youth Services illustrates several innovative public and private sector practices that respond to mobility problems of children when parents are working, and the Transit Oriented Development section describes some long-range solutions to immobility.
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This section highlights 27 of those programs, ranging from comprehensive, federally-funded practices to practices undertaken in individual communities across the country. It describes programs designed to take inner city workers to the suburbs; use of school buses as a pervasive transportation mode available in rural areas; special services to get people to job interviews and to shift work; and programs using vanpools.
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Other Reverse Commute', Services Central City to Suburbs SEPTAs Shuttle Pennsylvania Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's Horsham Breeze Shuttle meets buses from downtown Philadelphia to connect to suburban employment centers with major employers, such as UPS and Prudential. Extended 6-3
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One result is the Reserve-a-Ride Service instituted by Suburban Transit Authority, the public transit provider. Express buses pick up riders in the city and drop them at a suburban transit hub.
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Accel has formed a partnership with the Chicago Institute for Economic Development to provide job training, child care and placement services with employers in suburban DuPage County whose facilities are not accessible by public transit. The transportation system operates five 20-passenger vans and serves nighttime shift workers as well as regular daytime employees.
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Regional consultants provide technical assistance to local school boards and social service agencies to set up the school bus transportation program.
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- . ~ · ~· ~ · · ~ _ transportation so cl~saclvanragea ~na~v~aua~s or those undeserved by public transitparticularly welfare recipients transitioning to self-suff~ciency.
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Glendale-Azalea School District and Skills Center Transportation Oregon About the same time two lumber mills in this rural area of southern Oregon closed in 1993, the Glendale-Azalea School District established a Skills Center. The Skills Center works in partnership with social service agencies to assist families with children having behavioral problems.
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With the cooperation of DHS staff in Jefferson County, SEAT began using its senior center vans to transport DHS clients to job training sites prior to 10 a.m. and after 2 p.m., when the vans were not in use by the senior center.
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ETS has contracted for shared-ride taxis to take inner city residents to job interviews, physical exams, and other social services and for temporary vanpools. ETS has initiated transportation services to fill a variety of reverse commute gaps, including summer employment and after-work training at Bradley airport.
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The new law included a provision that the State of Tennessee must provide transportation to employment sites. Adults receiving welfare are responsible for selecting and utilizing appropriate transportation to get to a job training location, job interviews, and child care as necessary.
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The need for the route extension was revealed when the Fairfax County Department of Family Services in Northern Virginia plotted the residential location of clients, child care providers and potential employers on a regional map, using Geographic Information System computer software. The mapping was part of a detailed process of identifying resources to implement welfare reform.
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They are strategies to fill the gaps in that basic system by adding services that meet specific time or distance needs, or the particular needs of a target population. The practices include: Feeders: Demand responsive extensions of fixed route service, used where fixed route is not economical to provide FIexrou~res: Deviations from a regular fixed route to accommodate riders who do not live near enough to a bus stop or to provide increased safety, particularly at night Community-Based Transportation: Services tailored to the needs of a particular group and operated by local government or non-profit organizations Private Entrepreneurial: Services tailored to specific needs and operated by the private sector Extended Hours: Service outside the commute period, particularly for night and weekend riders Free Fares/Vouchers: Subsidized services, usually for persons who are elderly, disabled or poor 6-13
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This flexible routing provides attractive public transportation to the predominantly upper middle class area located 25 miles southwest of Washington, D.C.
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is a nonprofit organization managing a public housing project with over 5,000 tenants in South Central Los Angeles. With local assistance, the NGRMC organized the Nickerson Gardens Vanpool Program to provide residents with low-cost transportation to job training sites, interviews, child care facilities and employment sites.
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Depending on the locality, they may be regulated or licensed and the nature of the service may be restricted. Proponents claim jitneys can offer qualities which are lacking in public transit service.
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New York City Transit Authority (NYC TA) has combined increased bus service with strong enforcement against jitneys that operate illegally on bus routes, resulting in NYC TA ridership increases.
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(84) Ann Arbor Transportation Authority Late night service from 10 p.m.
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Immediate Needs Transportation Program. California The Metropolitan Transportation Authority underwntes both taxi vouchers and bus tokens, which are used by clients of 600 social service agencies in Los Angeles.
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As it has expanded, RTEC has obtained additional vehicles by leasing them from social service agencies that wanted to have RTEC provide transportation for clients. RTEC has found that linking people in rural communities to services requires a multi-county transportation service area.
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Daniel Boone, a Community Action Agency, serves an eight-county area, also In southeastern Kentucky, and provides a variety of services: assistance with locating housing, weatherization, emergency services, job training and development, child care referral, shelters for homeless, and public transportation. Daniel Boone utilizes staff and facilities of Community Action Agencies in its service area to provide transportation, thereby avoiding duplication of costs and administration.
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See Appendix A for the complete case study Link Transit. Washington Travel training teaches individuals to become more mobile in the community by training them to safely and independently use public transit.
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Countless others have been helped, less formally, by travel trainers who make contact with individuals on a casual basis when riding on a bus. Service Routes Madison County Illinois Service routes are fixed routes designed to reduce the distances that elderly persons and persons with disabilities must travel to get to and from bus stops.
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Service routes were designed to get customers as close as possible to potential destinations. Other factors contributing to the success of the MCT service routes were use of low floor buses, good service coverage, extensive use of time transfers with connecting bus routes, close coordination between the fixed route and paratransit services, and travel training.
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In the evening, the state will fund the school district to operate four new routes from the school child care sites to homes. The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Kansas City will provide child 5-25
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The Transit Tots West Child Care Center and depot at the new Chatsworth Metrolink Station is a joint venture of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the City of Los Angeles. More than five years in the planning, the center opened on April 20, 1996 and is operated by Children's Discoverv Centers of America.
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The definition of public transportation could be broadened even further to include vehicle programs which receive public funding. Two examples of public transportation agencies which also provide vehicle programs, the Ventura County Transportation Commission and the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, are cited below.
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Drivers need licenses, proof of insurance and a clean driving record. Wheels-To-Work North Carolina Operable cars are sold to persons transitioning Welfare through the Wheels-To-Work program, a partnership of Forsyth County commissioners, the Department of Social Services, Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina, the Winston-Salem Transit Authority, a local auto dealer, and an insurance agency.
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The County's Social Service Department is exploring policy changes and funding sources to implement the programs. Loans or Grants to Remove Barriers to Driving.
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This project would make loaner cars available for welfare participants to use for transportation to job interviews, to agencies such as the Department of Motor Vehicles to get necessary licenses, etc. Public agencies' vehicles or community-based organizations with a pool of vehicles might be tapped for this purpose.
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and Fittante, S R., "Air Quality and Cost-Revenue Impacts of Suburban Employment Center Commuter Rail Connector Bus Services." A paper presented to the 1992 Transportation Research Board Annual Meetings, Preprint #92040 (August 19911.
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See The Welfare Information Network: Transportation Internet Web Site at htpp://www.welfareinfo.org/transport.htm (73) "The Link to Employment: Case Workers as Mobility Managers," Community Transportation Association of America (1997~.
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(83) Crain & Associates, Inc., and Pacific Consulting Group, Strategies to Assist Local Transportation Agencies in Becoming Mobility Managers.
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(93) "Opening Doors to Travel Training Mobility," Washington State Public Transportation Conference, August 24, 1995.
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(100) "Child Care Center Opens at Metrolink Station." Passenger Transport, (May 6, 1996)
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