COMMUNITY BROKERAGE OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY IN MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA

This document reports on a unique way of providing transportation and transportation-related services (e.g., information and scheduling) to elderly and handicapped individuals in a small geographic area. In the Mountain View Community Broker project, a community broker furnished his clients with individualized primary service information and scheduling assistance. He also drove these clients to their destinations in a 12-passenger van. The project was intended to demonstrate the economic and operational feasibility of combining these functions in one role. The report describes the community broker concept and project operations; assesses the economic feasibility of the idea; discusses the project's impact on the target group; and provides some commentary on ways a community-broker type of project could be integrated into the existing network of social services for the handicapped and elderly. /Author/

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Sponsored by DOT, Urban Mass Transportation Administration under contract to DOT, Transportation Systems Center.
• Corporate Authors:

  Crain and Associates

  120 Santo Margarita Avenue
  Menlo Park, CA  United States  94025
• Authors:
  • Cooper, T
• Publication Date: 1978-2

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 110 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Communities; Economics; Paratransit services; Persons with disabilities; Scheduling; Transportation
• Subject Areas: Economics; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00183699
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• ISBN: UM827/R8712
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-CA06-0002-78-1 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-TSC-1081
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 3 1981 12:00AM