COORDINATED TRANSPORTATION DEMONSTRATION RESULTS

Starting in 1977 the Office of Human Development Services funded a 2-year program to demonstrate the feasibility of coordinating or consolidating existing transportation services at the local level; to explore and test service delivery systems and organizational methods for coordinated transportation; develop and test methods for coordination with existing public and private transportation providers; and identify statutory, regulatory and administrative barriers to coordinated transportation. The five grantees represented a range of coordination concepts: (1) Clearing-house concept which involved a minimum of commitment among participants; (2) Consolidation of dispatching and other functions but with most trips still provided by agencies acting independently; (3) Complete consolidation of budgets and vehicles of participating agencies with services by an independent entity; (4) Coordination concepts combined in various ways; (5) Incremental consolidation with eventual plans for a county-wide paratransit operation including elderly and handicapped who may not already be social service clients. It was shown that benefits of coordinating transportation operations are not as universally applicable or as easily obtainable as had been anticipated. Coordination is worth the effort in some circumstances and under certain conditions--but not others. Coordination does not necessarily lead to more efficient or effective transportation operations and it does require a substantially greater time and effort than had previously been imagined.

• Corporate Authors:

  Ecosometrics, Incorporated

  4715 Cordell Avenue
  Bethesda, MD  United States  20814

  Department of Health and Human Services

  200 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20201

  Office of the Secretary of Transportation

  Technology Sharing Program, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Burkhardt, J E
  • Knapp, S F
  • RAMSDELL, M J
• Publication Date: 1980-2

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 176 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Case studies; Consolidations; Coordination; Dispatching; Paratransit services; Persons with disabilities; Social service agencies
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00391604
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-I-84-06 Final Rpt., HS-040 342
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 30 2003 12:00AM