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Transportation
Promising Practices
The following pages highlight practices which demonstrate promise
in improving the access, the convenience, and the affordability
of transportation for the elderly in America.
- Aging
Network Coordinated Transportation Programs (PDF)
This document, prepared by the Community Transportation Association of America,
outlines seven transportation programs in Virginia, Florida, Indiana, and Maine
administered by the Aging Network. The descriptions detail the program components
that were critical to the success of these initiatives and also include contact
information for the programs.
- Community
Transportation Association of America: Best Practices (Off Site)
The Community Transportation Association of America’s website contains a list and
description of several best practices. This link highlights various strengths of
transportation programs which aim to improve access, convenience, and affordability
of transportation for the elderly in America.
- National
Governors Association Report on Improving Public Transportation
Services (Off Site)
The National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices created this
report which describes the benefits of transportation programs, the scope of these
programs, and the methods various states are using to improve coordination. This
report also identifies challenges and resources for states creating plans.
- Project
Action: Opportunities for Federal Funding and Promising Practices (Off Site)
Project ACTION (Accessible Community Transportation in Our Nation), sponsored by
the Easter Seals, is a national technical assistance project funded by the United
States Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration. This document
offers information gathered by the Easter Seals Project ACTION about other programs
which improve access, convenience, and affordability of transportation for people
with disabilities and senior citizens. Part 2 of this report contains information
on promising practices by the Allegan County Transportation, OUTREACH Guarantees
a Ride, Rhode Island Public Transit Authority’s Flex Service, and Southeast Tennessee
Human Resource Agency. Be sure to check outBuilding
Mobility Partnerships for People with Disabilities (Off
Site)
- Senior
Transportation: Toolkit and Best Practices (PDF)
The Senior Toolkit, published by the Community Transportation Association of America,
has information on planning and implementing transportation solutions. Chapter Three
profiles four transportation programs: The Seniors’ Resource Center in Denver, Colorado
runs two programs (Community Wheels in urban areas, and Mountain wheels in rural
areas) which provide transportation for elderly to medical appointments, grocery
shopping, congregate meals, adult day care, and personal trips; Treasure Valley
Transit of Canyon County, Idaho complements its two regular fixed routes with demand
response and contract services for the elderly; OATS, Inc. in Missouri provides
the elderly with free of charge, door-to-door service along established routes in
eighty-seven counties; and Medical Motor Service of Rochester, New York offers direct
services, brokerage services, and vehicle maintenance which allow the elderly to
access health, social, and community services.
- Supplemental
Transportation Programs for Seniors (PDF)
This report by the Beverly Foundation and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
summarizes a project on “supplemental transportation programs” (STPs) for seniors.
STPs include both formal and informal community-based transportation programs for
the elderly in the United States. The information on this site reflects surveys
on the history, affiliations, service relationships, service delivery performance,
finances, risk management activities, problems, and unique features of 236 such
programs around the nation.
- Maricopa
Association of Governments, Regional Action Plan on Aging
and Mobility (PDF)
(Very large document)
- Agency Council on Coordinated Transportation - 2002 - 2003 Report to the Washington State Legislature
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