| Title | The Newport News, Virginia, Easyride Transportation Brokerage Demonstration Project |
|---|---|
| Record ID | 50315 |
| Personal Name Creator |
Barber, Edward J.; Wagner, Daniel W.; Ellis, Raymond H.; Hallenbeck, Mark E. |
| Source | 248p. in various pagings |
| Corporate Creator | John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) |
| Corporate Contributor |
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.; United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Office of Technical Assistance; United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Office of Service and Management Demonstration |
| Publisher | United States. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Transportation Administration |
| Publication Date | 19820901 |
| Language | English |
| Abstract | The Easyride transportation brokerage demonstration in Newport News and Hampton, Virginia was initiated in July 1978 to assess the effectiveness of transportation brokerage in achieving higher vehicle occupancies. Easyride is a service of the Peninsula Transportation District Commission, the transit authority serving the cities mentioned above. Easyride promotes that form of ridesharing which best serves a site's employee's needs by collecting trip data at employment sites and providing matchlist and ridesharing promotional materials. Easyride provides special transportation service for the handicapped through Handi-Ride, a demand-responsive transportation service involving both Easyride-provided service as well as contract services provided by a local taxi company. Easyride also brokers special transportation services through a 16(b)(2) procurement review program and a vehicle leasing program available to local social service agencies. Easyride's experience with the rates of matchlist usage and carpool formation demonstrate the need for assistance to employers with follow-up promotions to matchlist distribution. Easyride's Handi-Ride program demonstrates that this type of service can be provided effectively through a combination of user-side subsidies and publicly operated service. A 16(b)(2) procurement review policy and a vehicle leasing program for social service agencies can be useful elements in a comprehensive special services transportation coordination effort. The most significant demonstration finding is that a brokerage program offers a transit authority opportunities to provide alternatives to conventional fixed-route-and-schedule bus service. Brokerage enables the transit authority to provide service extensions in areas and markets unsuited to fixed-route transit and, where appropriate, to substitute alternative service for existing bus service which is not cost-effective. |
| Rosap ID | dot:11706 |
| Rosap URL | https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11706 |
| TRT Terms | Aged; Brokerage; Carpools; Demonstration projects; Management; Persons with disabilities; Ridesharing; Vanpools; Paratransit services |
| Geographical Coverage |
Virginia |
| Contract Number | DOT-TSC-1758 |
| Report Number | UMTA-VA-06-0050-82-1; HS-033 887; DOT-TSC-UMTA-82-25 |
| Resource type | Tech Report |
| URL | https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/50000/50300/50315/DOT-TSC-UMTA-82-25.pdf |
| Format | |
| Database | NTL Digital Repository |