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Bicycle Transportation For Older Adults and People with Disabilities

The Best Practice, Bicycle Transportation For Older Adults and People with Disabilities, underscores the increasing use of bicycles by these populations to get to important destinations or for recreation. The best practice highlights learnings from two of NADTC’s 2019 grant programs that touched on transportation, including a program for older adults and research on adaptive bicycles…

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…

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Put the Brakes on Human Trafficking

What is Human Trafficking? Human trafficking is generally understood to be the recruitment, harboring, transporting, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services through force, fraud our coercion, and has become the fastest growing enterprise in the world, creating a multi-billion dollar a year criminal industry. Since its inception in 2010, the President…

Rural Transportation

The Best Practice, Rural Transportation, presents the experiences of NADTC grantees who developed transportation programs in rural areas. Common themes include the need to build trust with riders, coordinate with other providers and the critical importance of structure programs to serve long distances. This best practice is featured in the Best Practices Compendium, all of which are based on work…

Creating a Transportation Committee that Reflects All Community Voices

This guidebook was compiled to serve as a helpful resource to groups who are considering creating a transportation committee for the first time and agencies who are looking to help their current committee increase its effectiveness.

Volunteer Transportation

The Best Practice, Volunteer Transportation, describes the experiences of two NADTC grantees that implemented volunteer transportation programs to fill transportation gaps in their communities.   This best practice is featured in the Best Practices Compendium, all of which are based on work of grant projects supported by NADTC, 2017-2019.

Travel Training

The Best Practice, Travel Training, describes the experiences of two grantees that implemented travel training programs. Travel training addresses specific travel needs in different communities. These programs can provide older adults and people with disabilities with the knowledge and tools they need to travel more independently and with greater confidence   This best practice is featured in the Best…

Transportation Call Centers and Information & Referral/Assistance

The Best Practice, Transportation Call Centers and Information & Referral/Assistance, highlights successful strategies call centers can use to increase ridership by simplifying the process and increasing trust.   This best practice is featured in the Best Practices Compendium, all of which are based on work of grant projects supported by NADTC, 2017-2019.

Expanding Transportation Programs to Evening/Weekend Hours

The Best Practice, Expanding Transportation Programs to Evening/Weekend Hours, illustrates how one program, Senior Transportation Connection (STC) first built a solid weekday ridership base before expanding to nights and weekends. Since the expanded hours of operation depended on income from fares, STC listened to riders and partners to ensure affordability of the rides for those…