Including People with Disabilities in Coordinated Transportation Plans (PDF)
By Easter Seals Project ACTION (Accessible Community Transportation In Our Nation)
This resource provides ideas and suggestions for increased involvement by people with disabilities in communities' coordination efforts toward accessible transportation. Publication is designed to support people with disabilities in their participation and for the communities involving them in processes.

Getting to Work: A Case Study Report on Accessible Transportation Projects
By the Center for Workers with Disabilities
A lack of reliable, accessible, and affordable transportation is consistently cited as a barrier to employment by people with disabilities. The four Medicaid Infrastructure Grant transportation projects (Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New Jersey) profiled in this report illustrate a set of practices that address transportation needs. Although the MIG grants are not intended to provide or fund direct transportation services, state MIGs are well-positioned to use their resources to create linkages with other agencies and entities engaged in accessible transportation planning and service delivery. The four projects described in this report suggest a set of strategies and activities that can help advance accessible transportation in states and in communities.

ADA Technical Assistance: Topic Guides on ADA Transportation
By the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund for the Federal Transit Administration
This series brings together the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the U.S. Department of Transportation's ADA regulations, FTA determinations, and operational practices that comply with the ADA. The Topic Guides also draw information from many other sources. The Topic Guide Home Page is available in HTML, a PDF download, and a plain text option. This series of Topic Guides consists of:

• Equipment Maintenance
• Stop Announcement and Route Identification
• Eligibility for ADA Paratransit
• Telephone Hold Time in ADA Paratransit
• Origin to Destination Service in ADA Paratransit
• On-Time Performance in ADA Paratransit
• No-Shows in ADA Paratransit

Emergency Preparedness and Individuals with Disabilities
By the Interagency Coordinating Council on Emergency Preparedness and Individuals with Disabilities
The Department of Transportation is dedicated to ensuring the highest level of emergency preparedness in the event of a disaster. During an emergency, persons with disabilities may require (1) additional assistance with evacuation and (2) using transportation to get to a safe place.

Potential and Feasibility for Coordination of Transportation Services in Illinois (PDF)
By the Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities
This report takes a look at the coordination efforts that have taken place, reports on interviews with some key state level departments involved in providing funding for transportation, describes some successful coordination efforts at the local/regional level in Illinois and state level coordination efforts in other states. A series of potential actions for Illinois to consider are also described.

Young People with a Disability: Transport Needs Project (PDF)
By the South West Community Transport (Australia)
This project aims to identify the transport needs and travel patterns of Young People with Disabilities across the 7 local government areas of Bankstown, Camden, Campbelltown, Fairfield, Liverpool, Wingecarribee and Wollondilly. Young People with Disabilities are defined as people under 65 years of age with an intellectual, mental or physical disability.

Feasibility Study on the Use of Personal GPS Devices in Paratransit (PDF)
By the Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
This research project explores the feasibility of using personal mobile global positioning system (GPS) devices to help develop more efficient paratransit services. Four different GPS-tracking devices were examined, and a prototype was developed. Using the prototype, the vehicle operator and passengers are able to know each other's location through the help of an agency dispatcher. With this additional information, it is expected that the number of missed pickups will be reduced. Surveys were also distributed to collect opinions and concerns from different agencies. Results indicated that a majority of transit agencies showed interest in adopting GPS devices to improve paratransit services.

Rural Public Access and the Americans with Disabilities Act: Measuring Progress in Hamilton, Montana
(Rural Disability and Rehabilitation Research Progress Report #41)
By the Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities, The University of Montana Rural Institute
This report offers guidelines for rural communities toward improving aging infrastructures and implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act.