NTL Record

Title Community Brokerage of Transportation Services for the Elderly in Mountain View, California
Record ID 49197
Personal Name
Creator
Cooper, Tom
Source 110p. in various pagings
Corporate Creator Crain & Associates
Corporate
Contributor
John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.); United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Publisher United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Publication Date 19780201
Language English
Abstract This document reports on a unique way of providing transportation and transportation-related services (e.g., information and scheduling) to elderly and handicapped individuals in a small geographic area. In the Mountain View Community Broker project, a community broker furnished his clients with individualized primary service information and scheduling assistance. He also drove these clients to their destinations in a 12-passenger van. The project was intended to demonstrate the economic and operational feasibility of combining these functions in one role. The report describes the community broker concept and project operations; assesses the economic feasibility of the idea; discusses the project's impact on the target group; and provides some commentary on ways a community-broker type of project could be integrated into the existing network of social services for the handicapped and elderly. /Author/
Rosap ID dot:10663
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/10663
TRT Terms Aged; Persons with disabilities; Paratransit services; Economics; Scheduling; Transportation
Classification NTL - ECONOMICS AND FINANCE - ECONOMICS AND FINANCE;
NTL - ECONOMICS AND FINANCE - Transit Economics and Finance;
NTL - ECONOMICS AND FINANCE - Economic Impacts;
NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION;
NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Paratransit;
NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Transit Economics and Finances;
NTL - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - Social Impacts
Geographical
Coverage
California
Contract Number DOT-TSC-1081
Report Number UMTA-CA-06-0002-78-1; DOT-TSC-UMTA-78-20
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/49000/49100/49197/DOT-TSC-UMTA-78-20.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository