Modernizing Demand-Responsive Transportation for the Age of New Mobility
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Description
Provides an overview of demand-responsive transportation (DRT) and its role in supporting people with disabilities, older adults, people with lower incomes, and rural residents. Explores how a new data specification, the transactional data specification (TDS), can be used to modernize DRT services. Presents case studies of systems adopting TDS, including ITNAmerica, a national transportation network serving older adults in rural communities, and a pilot program in rural Oregon. Offers recommendations to policymakers and stakeholders to promote wide-scale adoption of TDS by DRT providers.
Author(s)
Jana Lynott
Date
12/2020
Type
Document
Organization
AARP Public Policy Institute
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Access · Aging and aging-related services · Human services · Policy · Transportation · Oregon