Practices for Establishing ADA Paratransit Eligibility Assessment Facilities (2015) / Chapter Skim
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7 functional evaluation or testing of applicants. The substantive eligibility process is not aimed at making a medical or diagnostic determination.
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8 study therefore focused on processes that included in-person interviews and functional assessments. TCRP Synthesis 30 includes four case studies that describe eligibility determination processes used by transit agencies in Los Angeles (California)
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9 Interviews with Combined Assessments of General Mobility This approach also begins with an in-person interview. If information gathered in the interview is not sufficient to make a determination of eligibility, it is followed by an outdoor or indoor walk to assess general mobility.
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10 Assessment Element Outdoor Route Features (preferred) Indoor Facilities (back-up)
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11 walk back, and be seated. If applicants are able to do this without difficulty or unsteadiness within a prescribed timeframe, no further observations are needed.
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12 complete the process when asked to appear in-person for interviews and functional assessments. Finally, the literature also suggests that with more thorough determinations, particularly better identification of specific and measurable conditions of eligibility, it is possible to implement trip-by-trip eligibility (determining if certain trips requested by conditionally eligible riders can be made by fixedroute transit)
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