A model of paratransit demand and supply.

Author(s)
Lewis, D.L.
Year
Abstract

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 personsùthose for whom regular transit is physically impossible to useùor to extend eligibility to moderately handicapped and able-bodied elderly persons as well. Planners must delimit the geographic range of service andthe network of available destinations with that range; and service levelsmust be established, such as advance booking requirements and fares. Suchdecisions inevitably involve trade-offs and it is trade-offs of this kindthat usually define the plannerÆs forecasting needs. This paper describesa 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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C 45230 (In: C 45189) /72 / ITRD E846226
Source

In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Handicapped Persons, under the auspices of Florida State University and the Loughborough University of Technology, Orlando, Florida, October 29-31, 1984, 7 p.

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