The Supplemental Transportation Program for Seniors project began in the year 2000 by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety (a philanthropic foundation in Washington, DC) and the Beverly Foundation (a private foundation in Pasadena, California). Designed as a nine-month effort to collect information about community-based transportation programs for senior citizens in the United States, its goal was to evaluate the programs and describe and disseminate the results to groups and organisations that would be interested in such information. The project team sent preliminary surveys to administrators of supplemental transportation programs. Three hundred seventy organisations responded. At that point, a detailed questionnaire was sent to each respondent. Two hundred thirty six programs responded to the detailed questionnaire. This report discusses the supplemental transportation program for seniors and presents descriptions of a number of such programs active around the nation.
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