USER-SIDE SUBSIDY PROGRAMS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS TRANSPORTATION-A PLANNING HANDBOOK

This handbook, first of a series, provides guidance for designing and implementing a user-side subsidy program. The book is divided into two parts--Program Planning and Program Implementation. The Planning section covers six areas--Goals and Objectives; User Eligibility and Demand; Involving Service Providers; Subsidy Mechanisms; Program Administration; and Programs Costs and Funding. The Implementation sections covers three areas: Community Liaison & Marketing; Negotiating with Service Providers; and Monitoring & Refinement. User-side subsidy programs are a means of improving the mobility of selected individuals in a community without establishing new transportation services or providing operating subsidies to existing transportation providers. User-side subsidies distribute subsidies directly to users, who may then select among participating service providers for their trips. With existing operators utilized and subsidy targeted to well-defined user groups and trips, payment is automatically adjusted to the number of trips actually made. The handbook has a planning by analogy concept where past and ongoing programs can greatly simplify the process of designing new programs.

• Corporate Authors:

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  Service and Management Demonstrations Program
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1983-6

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 99 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Coordination; Finance; Financing; Handbooks; Low income groups; Paratransit services; Persons with disabilities; Subsidies; Taxicabs; Transportation planning; User side subsidies; Vans
• Subject Areas: Finance; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00378959
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-TSC-UMTA-83-35, HS-036 045
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 30 1984 12:00AM