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H-1 Transit Problem Statements • Design Guide for Rural Deviated Fixed Route Transit Systems • Guidebook for Improving Connectivity to Intercity Bus Services • Policy Coordination to Improve Rural Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) Patient Care and Reduce Fiscal Risk I
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H-2 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap • Effects of DFRT on travel time, ridership, operating costs, productivity, and customer satisfaction. All of these issues need to be considered in the context of the size and shape of the service area, local terrain and land use patterns, and the layout of the underlying fixed routes (unidirectional loop, bidirectional linear corridor, hub-and-spoke, etc.)
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Transit Problem Statements H-3 VI. Urgency, Payoff Potential, and Implementation Aging populations, driver shortages, and the desire to increase ridership, productivity, and customer satisfaction are key motivators for the development of deviated fixed route services.
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H-4 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap X Process Used to Develop Problem Statement This problem statement was developed at the direction of the project panel for NCHRP Project 20-122, "Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap." More than 750 topics were identified across 14 theme areas through four workshops.
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Transit Problem Statements H-5 local, regional, and tribal public transportation networks have the potential to serve as feederdistributor routes for intercity bus service, yet rural transportation agencies report that it is often difficult to justify restructuring a local transit network to connect with an infrequent intercity service or extending a local bus route a great distance to reach an intercity carrier's stop on the outskirts of the community. The idea of connecting and coordinating public transportation services is not new.
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H-6 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap • documenting needs (e.g., customer, infrastructure, funding, planning, service delivery) for connectivity, • estimating and comparing the scheduling, operational, and financial effects of deviating one bus route to connect with another, • articulating to intercity bus stakeholders why connectivity is beneficial and how it may serve their needs, • developing mutual understanding of the goals of private for-profit carriers and local/tribal communities, • communicating the public agency decision-making process with the private sector, • methods to coordinate state intercity bus subsidy programs across jurisdictional boundaries, • incorporating intercity bus stakeholders and services into existing transit plans, • creating a coordinating council or incorporating intercity bus services into an existing one, • collaborating with intercity bus services even while consolidating rural public transportation services, • interagency collaboration mechanisms, • connectivity strategies, • funding sources, including FTA programs, • understanding how to use the unsubsidized miles in an intercity bus system for match for the local service, • connectivity for life-enhancing activities (e.g., social and recreational)
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Transit Problem Statements H-7 VII. Relationship to FTA Strategic Research Goals, TCRP Strategic Priorities, and/or TRB Strategic, Critical, and Emerging Issues This problem statement fits within the U.S.
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H-8 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap XI. Date and Submitted By Provide the specifics (i.e., name, title, address, telephone, and fax numbers)
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Transit Problem Statements H-9 and communication failures. One manifestation of these problems is missed appointments, which can adversely impact the effectiveness of medical treatments and diminish the efficiency of medical clinics, resulting in increased medical costs.
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H-10 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap coordinate NEMT services, inconsistencies/uncertainties in the interpretation of NEMT regulations, and alternative policy models used within the United States and internationally. This phase of the study will also conduct surveys of rural medical professionals and patients in the United States, Canada, and at least one Western European country.
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Transit Problem Statements H-11 affected stakeholders could include patients, medical providers, private insurers, public transportation agencies, private transportation providers, and ridesourcing companies.
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H-12 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap will include all of the theme reports as well as the problem statements generated by the project and collected from others.
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