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      <title>COMMUNITY-BASED TRANSPORTATION PLANNING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In March 2003, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) launched an innovative community-based transportation planning program (CBTP) involving congestion management agencies (CMA), transit operators, community-based organizations (CBO) and community residents. Through extensive community involvement, the program asks residents in low-income communities to prioritize transportation gaps in their neighborhoods and help identify solutions to mitigate them. Solutions can encompass fixed-route transit service or other options such as shuttle services, guaranteed ride home programs, subsidized taxis, auto programs, etc. The final product to emerge from this planning process is a transportation plan containing community-prioritized needs and solutions, a guide for solution implementation, viable public and private funding options and identified stakeholders committed to implementing the plan.  To begin implementation of the program, MTC initiated a pilot program in five communities representing a range of diverse urban and rural densities. While overall program guidelines serve as a blueprint for implementation, each pilot project tailored its planning process to best serve the residents in each unique project area. The goal of the pilot program is to distill best practices, including approaches to overall execution of the planning process, successful community outreach strategies and unique solutions to filling transportation gaps. In addition to identifying specific solutions to transportation problems, the program also strengthens relationships between government agencies, transit operators and communities, educates the community about the transportation planning process and builds community capacity through CBO involvement.  Results of MTC's community-based transportation planning pilot program will help to ensure that successful community-based planning can be replicated in any low income neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area or elsewhere.  This paper focuses on the process of implementing the CBTP program as well as program outcomes. It will describe program development, detail the implementation and completion of the Richmond-area pilot project, highlight unique elements of the other four pilot projects and conclude with CBTP observations to date.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>TAXIS AND SUBSIDIZED PROGRAMS IN RURAL AREAS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The taxi industry in rural communities is undergoing scrutiny, especially as it relates to the transportation of special groups within a community--the elderly, handicapped, and others who do not have access to automobiles or to public transit.  A major concern of the taxi operators is the survival of small taxi operations of 10 vehicles or fewer in communities with populations of 25,000 or less. This paper describes ongoing small-taxi programs in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; Houston, Texas; and Indianapolis, Indiana.  Possible solutions to the problems of the taxi operator in rural areas, such as direct subsidies, mergers with a centrally located operation, and support through social service agency transportation contracts are examined.  /Author/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 1981 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>USING TAXIS TO SERVE THE ELDERLY AND HANDICAPPED</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three user-side subsidy demonstration projects funded by the Urban Mass Transportation Administration are described, along with an evaluation of six locally sponsored subsidized taxi programs in the San Francisco Bay area.  Although these programs are not located in decidedly rural areas, the techniques and methods employed are applicable to the provision of services to the elderly and handicapped living in rural and small-town communities.  The study concluded, for example, that subsidized taxi service is especially well suited to low-volume, scattered demand as in smaller communities; that taxi operators are willing to participate in subsidized programs to transport the elderly and handicapped; and that user-subsidized taxi service is a workable, economically viable transportation mode for the elderly and handicapped.  /Author/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 1981 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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