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Toolkit

Community Engagement Toolkit: Essentials for Planning & Facilitating Meaningful Conversations

The Community Engagement Toolkit offers a structured approach and useful tools to discuss how well local transportation options are meeting the needs of individuals in the community, and create a plan for improvement.

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Publication

Taxi Operator’s Pocket Guide

This pocket guide covers driver responsibilities for serving passengers under the ADA, disability etiquette, mobility aids, assisting customers with service animals, and passenger responsibilities. This handout was updated in January 2025.

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Webinar

Digital Accessibility for Transportation Providers

NADTC and National RTAP will co-host a webinar to discuss the importance of all 5310 and 5311 providers to ensure their websites, digital content and transit apps are fully accessible to people with disabilities. Presentation will provide information about digital accessibility, show how inaccessible websites and apps can lead to discrimination, highlight available tools to test for accessibility and provide links to accessibility training. 

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Publication

2023 Innovations Showcase

INTRODUCTION This resource presents 14 Transportation Innovations selected by the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC) through a nationwide competition. The Showcase profiles out-of-the-box thinking and alignment of resources. Innovations may be entirely original or represent a creative adaptation of an approach that has worked in other places or program settings or with different…

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Publication

2020 Innovations in Accessible Mobility Grants

Introduction In 2020, the NADTC awarded Innovations in Accessible Mobility Grants to expand access to accessible transportation options to support community living and improve the lives of older adults and people with disabilities. Grants of up to $30,000 were awarded to ten communities who had seven months to implement a project to develop  new transportation approaches…

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Webinar

The Growing Involvement of Area Agencies on Aging in Community Transportation

According to 2022 National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging, 91% of Area Agencies on Aging provide transportation to support the mobility needs of older adults and people with disabilities. In this third webinar in NADTC’s series on Human Services Transportation, speakers from USAging will detail the survey’s findings on the types of transportation provided by…

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Briefing

Technical Assistance Brief-Microtransit Accessibility

This technical assistance brief provides resources for accessibility on microtransit services. Microtransit is a form of shared-ride on-demand transport that extends the reach of transit systems or in some cases, replaces fixed routes.  

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Publication

Office Hours-Helping Transit-Age Youth Overcome Barriers Through Travel Training

In August 23, 2023 NADTC’s Office Hours-“Helping Transit-Age Youth Overcome Barriers Through Travel Training” provided an interactive discussion between attendees on travel training strategies for students with disabilities and how it helps to overcome transportation barriers when transitioning to adult life. Keith Fox, Transition Coordinator for Easterseals Crossroads Transition Services has been partnering with transit…

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Webinar

Office Hours: Using Assistive Technology in Transportation

Click here for recording Click here for presentation slides On June 28 from 1:00-2:00 PM ET NADTC’s office hours will focus on the use of assistive technology in transportation and how transportation programs may accommodate for their use to better serve older adults and people with disabilities. This session will feature a presentation by Robert…

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Webinar

Lunch & Learn: Access Matters Video Series

Access Matters Video Lunch and Learn Recording Access Matters Video Series This Lunch and Learn features the recently updated Access Matters Video Series. The videos spotlight the importance of accessible transportation for people with disabilities and offer practical training and tips for transit drivers applicable to both rural and urban transportation programs. In addition to…

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