Providing Transportation Options to Ensure Quality of Life for All.
ARC is currently updating the agency’s the Human Services Transportation plan. Find out about the process and how you can be involved!
Human Services Transportation (HST) includes a broad range of service options designed to meet the needs of persons with disabilities, individuals with lower incomes and older adults. These individuals have different needs and require a variety of transportation services to ensure quality of life. Planning and coordinating HST helps to improve the efficiency of limited transportation resources, reduce duplication of services and improve customer satisfaction.
Managing Mobility in the Atlanta Region (2017) is the ARC’s Coordinated Human Services Transportation Plan (CHSTP). It offers an overview of assessed needs and improvements targeted to address those needs and establishes a Plan Vision and Goals which drive the accompanying research. The 2017 CHSTP emphasizes the social conditions in which transportation needs emerge and offers a matrix of options for the users. In this way, continuing and reinforcing the range of mobility options available in the to meet the region’s needs.
The Atlanta Regional Demand Response Implementation Plan is intended to focus on complementary paratransit (ADA) and county-run demand response transportation and inform future models of regional coordination, particularly new mobility paradigms to improve efficiency and enhance the user experience. This report summarizes the work undertaken for this year-long project, including interviews and meetings with those, directly and indirectly, involved in HST and Demand Response Transportation (DRT), demographic and HST DRT profiles of the ten counties that comprise the ARC planning region, research into applicable best practices, and most importantly, recommendations for implementing strategies to improve HST DRT collaboration and coordination.
Travel Training is a very important component of the HST plan, as it teaches individuals how to travel safely and independently on public transportation. ARC provides materials on four distinct types of travel training, each of which provides an increasingly more time-intensive level of instruction.
The following materials can be used by volunteers or paid staff at either transit agencies or human service agencies to get started with travel training:
“Cost allocation” refers to a series of distinct management and accounting practices used by transit providers to assess trip costs. The materials below were provided at a cost allocation workshop that was held for coordinated transportation providers. The slides demonstrate how a provider can develop an accurate way to charge for its services. They describe what cost allocation is and why total cost allocation is important; discuss issues in some existing methods; and demonstrate how to use a cost allocation model to develop a budget that reflects the services someone provides or wants to provide. The model is included with or without sample data. ARC sponsored this workshop, which was led by Richard Garrity, a Senior Associate at RLS & Associates, Inc.
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