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Transportation
(Transporte)
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Tools
(Herramientas)
- CTAA Technical Assistance
Technical assistance for communities looking to initiate and/or expand transportation services and programs that link people to jobs, medical care and other destinations necessary for quality of life. Includes application forms and contacts.
Qualified Consultants and Technical Assistance
Sponsoring organization: Community Transportation Association of America
- National Center on Senior Transportation
Develops, collects and distributes information and resources for use by communities, transportation providers, state and local governments, and human service providers to increase transportation options for older adults. Technical assistance, research toward solutions, strategic communications and building partnerships among stakeholders are additional functions of the center.
Sponsoring organization: Easter Seals
- Linking People to the Workplace
An employment transportation toolkit. Overview of the role of transportation in accessing employment. Includes strategies for developing community transportation and examples of successful programs.
Sponsoring organization: Community Transportation Association of America
- Medical Transportation: Toolkit and Best Practices
Designed to assist medical organizations and institutions to better serve their clients'
medical transportation needs. Outlines how community transportation can assist
health organizations, explains Medicaid's role in medical transportation, inventories non-Medicaid funding possibilities and describes how to make use of existing transit first.
Sponsoring organization: Community Transportation Association of America
- Easter Seals Project ACTION (Accessible Community Transportation in Our Nation)
Provides training and technical assistance to members of the disability and transportation communities to help address diverse accessibility issues. Provides a clearinghouse of free publications and a database of available transportation services that can be searched by city or zip code.
Sponsoring organization: Easter Seals
- National Rural Transit Assistance Programs (RTAP)
Serves as a federal-state-local partnership providing training and technical assistance products and services for distribution and replication by the states' rural transit agencies and operators. Offers access to information and expertise, including a list of state Rural Transit Assistance Program (RTAP) contacts.
Sponsoring organization: Federal Transit Administration
- RuralTransportation.org
Designed to serve rural transportation stakeholders, including local elected officials and regional development professionals. Includes links to publications and resources, examples of state models for rural transportation planning, and more. Produced by the National Association of Counties (NACo) and the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO).
Sponsoring organization: National Association of Development Organizations
- United We Ride
Provides information on all federal programs funding human service transportation. Also includes state-supported initiatives, success stories, and a database of useful practices.
Sponsoring organization: Federal Transit Administration
- Public Transportation
Designed to inform the public about the benefits and importance of public transportation for all Americans. Includes reports and links to other resources, laws and regulations, a calculator to determine the benefits of transit programs, and a list of transit systems by state and county.
Sponsoring organization: American Public Transit Association
Success Stories
(Historias de éxito)
Funding
(Financiamiento)
Publications
(Publicaciones)
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A Guide for Enhancing Rural Emergency Medical Services
Offers guidance for implementation of the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan. Provides strategies that can be employed to enhance rural emergency medical services.
Sponsoring organization: Transportation Research Board
Date: 2005
Format: PDF
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Planning for Transportation in Rural Areas
Provides information needed by rural planners, city and county engineers, stakeholders, local officials, and other decisionmakers involved with developing rural transportation plans. Includes a discussion of "rural," the variety of jurisdictions involved in rural transportation planning, including transit, samples of successful transportation planning, and a directory of national and state transportation-related websites.
Sponsoring organization: Federal Highway Administration
Date: 01 / 2004
Format: HTML
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Serving Rural America: U.S. Department of Transportation Program Guide
Provides information about Department of Transportation programs that are targeted to or have special uses for rural America. Discusses the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st
Century (TEA-21) as well as specific DOT funded programs.
Sponsoring organization: Federal Highway Administration
Date: 2002
Format: HTML
Journals
(Revistas)
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Community Transportation Magazine
The magazine that covers the field of public and community transportation service, and the people and communities it serves.
Sponsoring organization: Community Transportation Association of America
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United We Ride Newsletter
Newsletter about policy issues, awards, grants, educational resources and other issues related to the human service transportation coordination effort.
Sponsoring organization: Federal Transit Administration
Organizations
(Organismos)
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Community Resource Group
Works in rural areas to expand the opportunities for families to build assets, improve their lives, and strengthen their communities.
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