Mobility Services for All Americans: Unmet Mobility Needs and ITS Solutions

This study provides a comprehensive review of where we are, what we need and how Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) can contribute to enhancing mobility for the transportation-disadvantaged. The findings from this study are used as a foundation upon which ITS-enhanced models of human service transportation delivery can be built and evaluated. This study sheds light on desirable site characteristics for model development under different operations environments and scenarios. Ultimately the goal is to develop a replicable and scalable travel management coordination center (physical or virtual) that not only enables efficient coordination and delivery of human service transportation across agencies and modes, but also is transparent and easy-to-use for travelers in general, and for the transportation-disadvantaged population in particular. The authors recognize that opportunities exist to improve the current human service transportation system, and believe that ITS can make a substantial contribution to turn this much-needed improvement into a reality.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Torng, Gwo-Wei
  • Gross, Yehuda
  • Cronin, Brian P
• Conference:
  • 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: San Francisco California, United States
  • Date: 2005-11-6 to 2005-11-10
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: CD-ROM; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coordination; Customer service; Human factors; Intelligent transportation systems; Management; Mobility; Transportation disadvantaged persons; Travel; Travelers; Virtual reality
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01015770
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 31 2006 9:56AM