A Model of Paratransit Demand and Supply
This paper describes how setting up and operating a specialized service for the handicapped involves an array of different decisions and trade-offs. For example, planners must decide whether to serve only severely disabled persons—those for whom regular transit is physically impossible to use—or to extend eligibility to moderately handicapped and able-bodied elderly persons as well. Planners must delimit the geographic range of service and the network of available destinations with that range; and service levels must be established, such as advance booking requirements and fares. Such decisions inevitably involve trade-offs and it is trade-offs of this kind that usually define the planner’s forecasting needs. This paper describes a model that forecasts costs under a range of service levels. The examples given hold for localities with average populations and wage costs. Results will thus vary substantially in individual localities.
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Corporate Authors:
Department of Transportation
Office of the Secretary of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Lewis, David L
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Conference:
- THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT OF ELDERLY AND HANDICAPPED PERSONS
- Location: ORLANDO FLORIDA, United States
- Date: 1984-10-29 to 1984-10-31
- Publication Date: 1984-10
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; Tables;
- Pagination: 7p
- Monograph Title: THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT OF ELDERLY AND HANDICAPPED PERSONS: CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aged; Door to door service; Level of service; Paratransit services; Persons with disabilities; Public transit; Transit operating agencies
- Identifier Terms: Transed
- Uncontrolled Terms: Specialized transport
- Subject Areas: Public Transportation; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01113867
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: Oct 29 2008 7:22AM