Coordinating human service transportation services and public transit services can provide significant economic benefits, including increased funding, decreased costs, and increased productivity. Particularly successful coordination strategies could include: Transit agencies providing trips for Medicaid clients with industry benefits of up to $50 million per year; Nontransit agencies providing Americans with Disabilities Act and other paratransit services with benefits up to $148 million per year; Transportation providers shifting paratransit riders to fixed route services with benefits up to $300 million per year; Local human service agencies coordinating their trips with benefits up to $60 million per year; and Communities expanding transportation services to areas not now served with benefits up to $132 million per year. This brochure describes basic coordination concepts, typical economic benefits of coordination, strategies that enable transportation operators to achieve significant economic benefits from coordinating their operations, and potential overall industry impacts. Additional details can be found in TCRP Report 91 (available late fall 2003). This brochure is the executive summary of that report. (Author/Publisher)
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