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What Have We Learned From the COVID Pandemic?

The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly changed how we live, work, and connect with our communities and family. The pandemic has tremendously altered how transit and human services transportation programs provide services and support their communities. As I struggled to think of an interesting way to express what human services transportation providers and public transit gained…

Grant Lifecycle: Application to Sustainability

This toolbox is designed to help potential grantees: 1) find grant opportunities; 2) be prepared to apply for discretionary and other Federal, state, and local grants; 3) manage grants once received; and 4) sustain a project after the grant is complete.

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.

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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…

How to…with NADTC: Writing Effective Survey Questions

Collecting input from the community is an important part of developing a coordinated public transit-human services transportation plan. Surveys are a commonly used tool to elicit feedback and input from transportation users and the public; but writing a survey that gets honest, constructive responses requires effective questions. In this video, you’ll learn 5 tips for…

Do you Want to Tackle Transportation Coordination? Then Tackle TACL!

Guest Blogger – Cara Marcus, MSLIS, the Resource Center Manager for National RTAP and the Chair of the TACL Task Force.         What is TACL? You’ve definitely heard about transportation coordination – and your agency may be in the planning, implementation, or management stage.  But have you heard about TACL?  Don’t worry if…

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…

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!…

Federal Funding Resources

Applicant Toolkit for Competitive Funding Programs at USDOT The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) has developed an Applicant Toolkit to provide guidance as part of the Rural Opportunities to Use Transportation for Economic Success (R.O.U.T.E.S.) This toolkit supports potential applicants in identifying and navigating USDOT discretionary grant funding opportunities for rural transportation projects. In…