Developing an Evaluation Procedure of Regional Human Services Transportation

Local public transportation providers provide the non-emergency human transport service to hospitals and doctor’s offices. Some requires specialized medical services at a hospital located out of the normal service area. In the Piedmont/Triad region, the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART) was established to coordinate regional transportation services. PART began the PART Connections in April 2004 to provide two daily transportation services between the Piedmont/Triad area and the Chapel Hill/Duke medical areas. This regular service eliminates the need for special arrangements for individual cross-county trips. For the first nine month period since its inception, 4,232 passengers used the PART Connections from four eastern counties in the Piedmont/Triad region. It is estimated that the PART Connections will save at least $137,000 of operation expenses annually to the four county transportation systems. Alternatively, it is estimated that the PART Connections enables the four county transportation systems to provide more than 10,000 additional trips within each county each year by using the freed-up resources. In addition, twelve local community transportation providers in fifteen western counties of the Piedmont/Triad region, which currently do not participate in the PART Connections, are estimated to save modest $6,000 in total annually by using the PART Connections. Two extension routes of PART Connections to the ten western Piedmont counties are suggested. The extensions will replace the transportation services to Winston-Salem currently provided by the local community transportation providers in ten western Piedmont counties and provide new regular transportation services to the Chapel Hill/Duke medical areas.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.ncat.edu/~traninst/Benjamin%20and%20Sakano%20Final%20Report%202004-2005.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This research was funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Research Institute Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro

  Transportation Institute
  Greensboro, NC  United States  27411

  Research and Special Programs Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Sakano, Ryoichi
  • Benjamin, Julian
• Publication Date: 2006-1-31

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 39p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Hospitals; Medical services; Passengers; Regional transportation
• Identifier Terms: Duke University; Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Connections (Transportation); Non-emergency medical transportation; Transportation coordination; Transportation services
• Geographic Terms: Chapel Hill (North Carolina); Winston-Salem (North Carolina)
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01032968
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DTRS93-G-0018
• Contract Numbers: DTRS93-G-0018 (Grant)
• Files: UTC, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 11 2006 4:21PM