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30 Introduction A demographic profile of the community is important to understanding the different types of market segments a public tribal transit service will need to serve. It gives a better understanding of the community and helps with estimating needs and forecasting demand for passenger transportation in the community.
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transportation Needs assessment 31 Mobility-limited population: This category is defined as individuals above 16 years of age with an impairment that limits their ability to leave their home without assistance. Below-poverty population: This category includes all individuals from households with income levels reported as below the poverty threshold.
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32 Developing, enhancing, and Sustaining tribal transit Services: a Guidebook Both the decennial census and the ACS data can be obtained from the main census website at www.census.gov. Census may periodically change its website.
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transportation Needs assessment 33 For tribes without a reservation boundary, information on Native American transit- dependent populations is available by selecting the following descriptions under "census tracts" or "census block groups." As mentioned, you will have to select certain pieces of information from these tables based on the information needed. • Sex by Age (AIAN alone)
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34 Developing, enhancing, and Sustaining tribal transit Services: a Guidebook example of the kind of data accumulated using this methodology, as applied to a project for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians: More information on this model, including a workbook to aid in the calculations, can be retrieved from TCRP Web-Only Document 49: Methods for Forecasting Demand and Quantifying Need for Rural Passenger Transportation, available online at: http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/ tcrp/tcrp_webdoc_49.pdf. ADA Demand Model Estimating the demand for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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transportation Needs assessment 35 An alternative technique for estimating rural public transit demand was developed as part of TCRP Project B-36 to give a rough estimate based on demographic characteristics alone using the formula Non-program Demand trips per year Po( )
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36 Developing, enhancing, and Sustaining tribal transit Services: a Guidebook Small Urban Areas (Golenberg and Pernaw 1979)
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transportation Needs assessment 37 The CD-ROM is self-contained and includes all the required census data and directions. It does not require access to specialized data or software like GIS and is sensitive to a variety of factors that could affect rural intercity bus demand.
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38 Developing, enhancing, and Sustaining tribal transit Services: a Guidebook It is important to test the questionnaire on a small group of people before distributing it to the community to see whether people understand the questions or to identify mistakes in the survey design. Figure 4.2 presents a sample community needs survey.
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transportation Needs assessment 39 Spielberg, F., A
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