Easter Seals Project Action spent 28 years providing technical assistance and research on all modes of accessible transportation. After that Federal money went away, they pivoted to consulting on these services: https://www.projectaction.com/news-and-resources That's the place to get "how to" guides for transit managers, as well as support for travel trainers.
The National Aging and Disability Transportation Resource Center https://www.nadtc.org spends Federal money to collect info on all ways that disabled and older people get around. The contractors are Easter Seals and National Association of Area Agencies for Aging.
Acronyms abound: NEMT is a key concept, since Non Emergency Medical Transportation is what gets all of us to the doctor/dentist/prosthetist/PT/shrink and more.
Resources for Paratransit Policy
http://paratransitwatch.blogspot.com/2006/12/policy.html
Since so much transit is Federally funded, the Feds also pay for a lot of research and technical assistance, available from a variety of places.
Transportation Research Board, a National Academies of Science project at
https://www.trb.org
Their "paratransit policy" search yields ~60 returns
All their materials are free, and some are even useful.
Easter Seals Project Action spent 28 years providing technical assistance and research on all modes of accessible transportation. After that Federal money went away, they pivoted to consulting on these services:
https://www.projectaction.com/news-and-resources
That's the place to get "how to" guides for transit managers, as well as support for travel trainers.
The National Aging and Disability Transportation Resource Center
https://www.nadtc.org
spends Federal money to collect info on all ways that disabled and older people get around. The contractors are Easter Seals and National Association of Area Agencies for Aging.
Acronyms abound: NEMT is a key concept, since Non Emergency Medical Transportation is what gets all of us to the doctor/dentist/prosthetist/PT/shrink and more.