TRAVEL TRAINING

What is Travel Training?

Travel training is short-term, comprehensive, intensive instruction designed to teach students with disabilities how to travel safely and independently on public transportation. The goal of travel training is to train students to travel independently to a regularly visited destination and back. Specially trained personnel provide the travel training on a one-to-one basis. 

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Learn about resources to assist you in using public transportation: 

• Travel Training:  Project Action 
• Travel Training for Youth with Disabilities 

Additional Resources:

• ADA in Action, 1-800-949-4232. ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) in Action are regional centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to provide technical assistance, materials dissemination, and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act. This 1-800 number will automatically connect you with the office that serves your region. Call and ask for their publication list it has an entire section on Public Transportation.
  
  
• American Foundation for the Blind, Information Center, 11 Penn Plaza, Suite 300, New York, NY 10001. Telephone: 1-800-232-5463. Web address: American Foundation for the Blind. E-mail: American Foundation for the Blind. A non-profit organization founded in 1921 and recognized as Helen Keller's cause in the United States, the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is a leading national resource for people who are blind or visually impaired, the organizations who serve them, and the general public. The mission of the AFB is to enable people who are blind or visually impaired to achieve equality of access and opportunity that will ensure freedom of choice in their lives. 
  
  
• Center for Transportation, Education, and Development, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 161 West Wisconsin Ave., Ste. 6000, Milwaukee, WI 53203. Telephone: (414) 227-3337. The mission of the Center for Transportation, Education, & Development is to provide quality education programs to transportation professionals. The Center provides noncredit continuing education that meets the needs of administrators, managers, supervisors, drivers, and consumers of transportation services. Their training sessions deal with subjects such as scheduling and dispatching, travel training, paratransit, passenger assistance, and cost containment.
  
  
• Clearinghouse on School/Special Transportation, Sweetwood Foundation, c/o Serif Press, Inc., 1331 H Street NW, Suite 110LL, Washington, DC 20005. Telephone: (202) 737-4650. This information clearinghouse provides its members in the school transportation community with an information exchange services. Also available are a newsletter, Transporting Students with Disabilities, bibliographies of existing reports, legislation, surveys, test results, articles and video tapes, and a library of additional resources.
  
  
• Community Transportation Assistance Project (CTAP), c/o Community Transition Association of America (CTAA), 1440 New York Ave., NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20005. Telephone: 1-800-527-8279; (202) 628-1480. CTAP is funded through a grant with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is a technical assistance and training project that includes a national transportation clearinghouse serving human services agencies, and provides technical assistance, electronic bulletin board services, peer-to-peer network, and training workshops and materials.
  
  
• NYC Board of Education Travel Training Program, D. 75, New York City Board of Education, 22 East 28th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10016. Telephone: (212) 545-8031; (718) 266-0085. For details on this program see article entitled "A Model Of A Travel Training Program: The New York City Board Of Education Travel Training Program" above.
  
  
• Project ACTION, National Institute for Accessible Transportation, 1350 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 613, Washington, DC 20005. Telephone: 1-800-659-6428 (Voice/TTY). Project ACTION, Accessible Community Transportation in Our Nation, funded by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and administered by the National Easter Seals Society, is a national research and demonstration program established to improve access to transportation services for people with disabilities and assist transit providers in implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Call to get a copy of Project ACTION's extensive publication and report list.
  
  
• Rural Transit Assistance Program, National Resource Center, c/o Community Transportation Association of America, 1440 New York Ave., NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20005. Telephone: 1-800-527-8279; (202) 628-1480. RTAP is a program of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) which provides information and technical assistance on all issues related to rural and specialized transit. RTAP has both a national program and state programs that work together in partnership. On the national level the National Resource Center offers training materials, technical assistance, and communications with the industry. Contact RTAP to get a list of your state's RTAP contacts.
  
  
• Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS), National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20418. Telephone: (202) 334-3250. Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) is a unique on-line computerized information file that contains both abstracts of completed research and profiles of research in progress. The TRIS mission is to acquire, provide access to, and disseminate reference materials for all transportation research projects and publications useful to administrators, engineers, operators, researchers, and other members of the transportation community. The TRIS can be accessed directly through DIALOG Information System File 63 or by contacting them directly.
  
  
• US Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, The Access Board, Suite 1000, 1331 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004-1111. Telephone: 1-800-872-2253 (Voice/TTY); (202) 272-5434 (Voice/TTY). Since 1973, the Access Board has been the only independent federal agency whose primary mission is accessibility for people with disabilities. If the Board finds that a building or facility is covered by the Act and does not meet accessibility standards, it tries to resolve the complaint; if the complaint cannot be resolved, the Board can take legal action to gain compliance.
  
  
• University Transportation Centers Clearinghouse, Ann Marie Hutchinson, Pennsylvania State University, Research Office Building, University Park, PA 16802-4710. Telephone: (814) 863-3614. The Clearinghouse collects research studies and publishes an annual report of the work of the various university transportation centers. They maintain a library and can refer inquiries to sources of studies and publications, and disseminate research results.
  
  

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