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Expanding Independent Travel Opportunities for People with Vision Loss through Travel Training
Click here to listen to the webinar recording Click here for the presentation slides The National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC) office hours are focused on enhancing training and technical assistance opportunities and offer further opportunities to interact with your peers, topic experts and NADTC staff. On June 2 from 2:00-3:00 PM, ET NADTC’s…
Read more »Determining ADA Paratransit Eligibility
This workbook provides an approach, recommendations and training materials for determining eligibility for ADA Paratransit services. The document covers three sections, Guidance for Conducting Physical Functional Assessment for ADA Paratransit Eligibility, an Introduction to the Functional Assessment of Cognitive Transit Skills (FACTS) Administration, and Assessment and Scoring Exercises.
Read more »2021 Section 5310 Spotlight: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Requirements for Section 5310 Recipients
This informational brief reviews the required elements that transportation agencies must abide by when using Section 5310 funding for their daily operations. Topics include wheelchair securement, personal care attendants, service animals and more.
Read more »Providing Transportation to Older Adults with Vision Loss: Challenges and Opportunities
Click here to listen to the webinar recording Click here for the presentation slides Join us on March 24 at 2:00-3:00 pm ET for an exploration of the transportation challenges experienced by older adults with vision loss and good practices in better meeting their travel needs. We will hear from two experts in the vision…
Read more »Office Hours: Community Health Impact Using Transportation
Click here to view the recorded session Click here for the presentation slides The National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC) Office Hours are focused on enhancing training and technical assistance opportunities and offer further opportunities to interact with your peers, topic experts and NADTC staff. On March 15 from 2:00-3:00 PM ET NADTC’s Office…
Read more »Open Forum on Aging, Vision Loss & Transportation
Click here to access the recording NADTC is working with the American Foundation for the Blind to develop an information brief on “Aging, Vision Loss and Transportation.” We want to invite transportation experts to review our draft information brief and provide feedback on its usefulness and relevance to transportation programs. Join us for a discussion!…
Read more »Office Hours: Improving Transportation Access for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Click here to listen to the webinar recording Click here to download the presentation The National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC) office hours are focused on enhancing training and technical assistance opportunities and offer further opportunities to interact with your peers, topic experts and NADTC staff. On February 10 from 2:00-3:00 PM, ET NADTC’s…
Read more »NADTC Best Practices Compendium
The Best Practices Compendium is a compilation of the lessons learned by the 16 grant programs funded by NADTC from 2017 through 2019. The overall purpose of these demonstration grants was to establish one or more innovations—new transportation services or programs—in the selected communities. Such innovations have the potential to serve as models that may…
Read more »2019 Transportation Trends Report
This report reviews 2019’s trending topics in transportation. The Trends Report provides an overview of what’s trending in the industry, questions we receive at NADTC and important transportation issues in communities across the U.S. 2019 topics include: Filling a Need: Hiring People with Disabilities in Transit Travel Training for Older Adults Procuring Demand Response Transit…
Read more »2017 Trends Report Topic Spotlight: ADA No-Shows and Cancellations
Americans with Disabilities Act policies regarding Complementary Paratransit customer no-shows and ride cancellations are the focus of this Topic Spotlight, one of six transportation issues reported on in the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center 2017 Transportation Trends Report. The complete report discusses trending topics—significant issues that affect the availability of accessible transportation in communities—identified by…
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