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Special thanks to guest bloggers Kelly Ast, Project Director, Rides to Health & Wealth and to Patty Cantrell, Director of New Growth for preparing this post. This article provides an overview of how organizations in rural west central Missouri collaborated to form the region’s Rides to Health and Wealth program to address rural transportation issues. Rural communities across America…
The Medical Transportation Toolkit was adapted from NADTC’s fall 2019 online course which provided an in-depth look at transportation programs addressing the gaps in access to health care services in their community and how these programs play a key role in providing medical transportation services to older adults and people with disabilities. This toolkit is designed to provide organizations…
In this Scooter Polices and Accessibility Topic Spotlight, NADTC explores the expansion of micromobility to include e-scooters and how the devices present challenges and opportunities in maintaining accessibility in public spaces. This brief takes a look at examples from Georgia and Texas.
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 2019 News from NADTC e-alerts. December 2019 – NADTC Capitol Hill Briefing December 2019 – New Courses: Travel Training and Assisting Passengers with Alzheimer’s and Dementia November 2019 – NADTC Nationwide Transportation Survey Reminder November 2019 – NADTC Nationwide Transportation Survey October/November 2019 – Federal Transit Administration FY 2020 Notice of Funding September 2019…
NADTC is pleased to present a series of technology blogs written by Easterseals consultant and guest blogger Steve Yaffe. In this series, we look at demand response transportation design and operations. The eight blogs highlight the need for cost allocation, transit scheduling and technology in providing efficient demand response transportation. The blog series address: Paratransit…
The following is the last in a series of seven blogs on demand response transportation design and operations from guest blogger Steve Yaffe. In this last blog of the series, the need for transactional data specifications to efficiently provide demand response transportation. Many older adults and people with disabilities have difficulty in reaching medical appointments,…
The following is the fourth in a series of blogs on demand response transportation design and operations from guest blogger Steve Yaffe. This blog focuses on the stages of procuring technology for scheduling demand response transit. Based on experience scheduling demand response transit manually and with software, pleased be assured that using technology is the…
The following is the fifth in a series of blogs on demand response transportation design and operations from guest blogger Steve Yaffe. In this blog, will discuss using a Request for Proposals (RFP) a method for procuring transit technology. As discussed in my previous blog, a Request for Proposals (RFP) is the preferred…
The following is the sixth in a series of blogs on demand response transportation design and operations from guest blogger Steve Yaffe. This blog highlights how to prepare a Request for Proposals in procuring transit technology. The technologies requested in a RFP Scope has to be scaled in two directions: the functionalities needed and…