TECHNOLOGY DELIVERY FOR A NEW PARATRANSIT VEHICLE

The report reflects the view that a number of technological opportunities are available for solving the long-standing American transportation need--a large, comfortable taxicab/paratransit vehicle, and that the success of the paratransit program may depend on the technology delivery process. The report highlights the need to take the existing state-of-the-art vehicle technology and to convert it into a disseminated vehicle in the marketplace so that it would be profitable to manufacturers, operators, and users. It focuses specifically on the barriers to delivering a new paratransit vehicle to the industry; it identifies the key issues which will become relevant in the future, as innovators attempt to market a vehicle, and its concomitant services, to the riding public. The report outlines UMTA's role with delivering this new technology into the marketplace for paratransit services through the sponsorship of a demonstration project for approximately 200 vehicles, that is, a demonstration that reflects the real world of revenue service of this vehicle. (Portions of this document are not fully legible)

• Corporate Authors:

  Gellman Research Associates, Incorporated

  100 West Avenue
  Jenkintown, PA  United States  19046

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Price, J P
  • Kornhauser, A
  • Phillips, J
• Publication Date: 1977-7

Media Info

• Pagination: 99 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Emergency vehicles; Innovation; Manufacturing; Market research; Marketing; Needs assessment; Paratransit services; Persons with disabilities; Public opinion; Regulations; Research; Taxicabs; Technological innovations; Technology; Transportation; Urban transportation; Vehicle design; Vehicles
• Old TRIS Terms: Public service vehicles
• Subject Areas: Law; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00167285
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-PA-06-0039-77-1Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-UT-70038
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 23 1981 12:00AM