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The American Occupational Therapy Association’s plan helps families identify signs that older drivers may become unsafe and makes suggestions to help seniors maintain mobility, such as using paratransit services and reduced transit fare programs.
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The app, named QualiT, allows individuals to anonymously share feedback with the T. The service is similar to ones provided on Uber and Lyft transportation systems, and provides crowd-sourced data to help improve service.
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Prior to opening its $2.2 million facility, Metro Bus paid a health care agency to conduct the physical assessments. Now, trained staff performs applicant interviews and cognitive and physical assessments during one appointment, creating a cost savings of about $125 per assessment.
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Officials say using separate van fleets will improve the on-time performance for the paratransit trips with no changes in dial-a-ride service.
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London is in the midst of a boom not seen since Victorian times. Both population and employment are rising fast. Former industrial areas are being reclaimed, while the urban area is constrained by an historic “green belt” put in place since the late 1940’s.
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RTC specialists can teach clients — in a group or one-to-one setting — how to use public transit safely and efficiently in a contained environment that simulates the outdoors.
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A number of years ago, there was some stirring of change via the rise of mobile (cell) phones and changes in customer views of the availability of choice and information. Then, Uber began to definitively arrive on the scene.
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The small OEI team will consult with some of the best and brightest minds in local, national and international academia, along with those in the nation’s transportation and policy think tanks and senior transportation veterans.
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Launched as an effort to better meet the community’s transportation needs, the new Flex service, which can deviate up to one mile off of its set route to pick up riders, operates as a hybrid between DART’s fixed-route buses and paratransit buses that provide door-to-door transportation to qualified riders through reservations made 24 hours in advance.
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C-Tran has offered travel training in some form for years, but the agency recently hired Veronica Marti in 2013 to coordinate the program full-time. Marti often meets with riders as an introduction, and then accompanies them on one or more trips, offering guidance along the way.
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