CalVans: As Easy Ride to the Hard Work on a Farm

Not only an urban solution, vanpools can offer rural areas cost-effective public transportation, as Section 5311 operators, as chronicled in this article. A series of vans travel across California's Central Valley as part of the California Vanpool Authority's CalVans program. They are provided by the state as a reliable and easy-to-use mechanism to connect agricultural workers to farming sites and housing locations across the fertile agricultural region.

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• Record URL:
  http://web1.ctaa.org/webmodules/webarticles/articlefiles/Fall-Winter14CalVans.pdf
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• Authors:
  • Sampson, Rich
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: pp 33-34
• Serial:
  • Community Transportation
  • Publisher: Community Transportation Association
  • ISSN: 0895-4437

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Agriculture; Case studies; Connectivity; Cost effectiveness; Laborers; Rural areas; Rural transit; Vanpools
• Identifier Terms: CalVans
• Geographic Terms: Central Valley (California)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01563205
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 18 2015 11:00AM