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Office Hours: Marketing Community Transportation Services
Click here to listen to the webinar recording Click here to download the presentation The 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 December 15 from 2:00-3:00 pm ET, NADTC’s office hours focused on innovative marketing…
Read more »Transportation’s Challenging COVID Recovery
Dec 14, 2021The promise of a return to “normal life” has preoccupied just about every sector during the pandemic. But transportation has faced its own unique challenges, especially human services transportation providers. From pauses on travel training programs to limited vehicle capacity and the challenges of social distancing, pre-pandemic standard operations of transit systems still seem slightly…
Read more »Volunteer Driver Programs: Creative Recruitment Strategies
Dec 06, 2021Guest Blogger – Virginia Salem (Ginny) started as the administrator for Northern Essex Elder Transport, Inc, (NEET) in 2017. She previously worked at the Salisbury Council on Aging advocating for better public transportation and served on the Transportation Task Force of the Advisory Board of Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley. Northern Essex Elder…
Read more »Coordination Connections: Building Transportation Capacity in Rural Areas with Public & Private Partners
Click here to listen to the webinar recording Click here to download a copy of the presentation This is the fourth webinar in the Coordination Connections series. In this session, participants will hear from Charles McCarthy, Mobility Manager of the Northwest Colorado Council of Governments about his journey to re-establish a transportation system in NW…
Read more »Accessible Transportation for People Living with Dementia
Nov 29, 2021There are currently more than 6 million people living with Alzheimer’s disease in the United States. Currently, about 70 percent of them are living in the community and 25% are living alone. People with dementia can lead fulfilling lives when they are able to remain socially active in the community. The availability of accessible transportation…
Read more »Access to Healthy Food
The Best Practice, Access to Health Food describes the approaches of three former NADTC grantees to address hunger and provide better access to healthy food 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.
Read more »Can We Walk or Wheel There Yet? Examining the Progress (or lack thereof) in Planning for Accessible Pedestrian Infrastructure
Nov 01, 2021Guest Blogger – Dr. Yochai Eisenberg is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Department of Disability and Human Development and Great Lakes ADA Center researching barrier-removal planning and mobility among people with disabilities. Across the U.S, communities big and small are supporting walking and wheeling by constructing more accessible walking infrastructure….
Read more »Office Hours: Innovative Approaches to Communicate with Individuals with Dementia
Click here to listen to the recording Click here to download the presentation NADTC Office Hours are focused on enhancing training and technical assistance opportunities and offers an opportunity to interact with your peers, subject matter experts and NADTC Staff. Our next Office Hours call, which will focus on ways to better serve customers with…
Read more »How Section 5310 Supports Community Transportation Innovations
The Best Practice, How Section 5310 Supports Community Transportation Innovations includes a snapshot of the Section 5310 Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities Program and describes how former grantees use this funding to improve transportation accessibility in their communities. This best practice is featured in the Best Practices Compendium, all of which are based…
Read more »2020 Trends Report Spotlight: A Fixed-Route Response to Assisting Local Communities during the Coronavirus Pandemic
While 2020 has been in many ways unprecedented, many transit agencies have continued to excel at what they do best – move people. With their employees deemed essential workers, most transit authorities across the country remained in service during the pandemic, while developing innovative ways to operate in our new normal. The core ridership of…
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