Coordination Basics
Welcome to the Coordination Bookshelves page. This section contains periodic updates providing the latest publications, tools, and other informational resources related to the coordination of human service transportation.
General Coordination Resources
- Coordination: It's the Law By NRC Director Chris Zeilinger
Even before President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13330 on Human Service Transportation Coordination, legal language existed to encourage coordination.
- Executive Order 13330 on Human Service Transportation Coordination
- Reports from the Government Accountability Office (GAO):
Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Some Coordination Efforts Among Programs Providing Transportation Services, but Obstacles Persist
Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Federal Agencies Are Taking Steps to Assist States and Local Agencies in Coordinating Transportation Services
- Economic Benefits of Coordinating Human Service Transportation and Transit Services (PDF)
By the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP Report 91)
This report presents general coordination concepts, strategies for increasing coordination, and the benefits and industry-wide impacts of coordination. Strategies for coordination include generating new revenues by providing services to new markets, contracting with other agencies to provide services to their current clientele, and coordinated dispatching. Local benefits include increased sources of funding, increased efficiency, increased mobility, and secondary economic benefits.
- Toolkit for Rural Community Coordinated Transportation Services (PDF)
By the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP Report 101)
This toolkit describes basic coordination concepts, describe the process for initiating new coordinated transportation efforts, present techniques for improving the effectiveness of existing efforts, and provide a number of case studies for demonstrative purposes. Case studies begin on page 233 of this PDF, which is a large file (2.73 MB).
- Preparing Coordinated Transportation Plans: A Guidebook for State Departments of Transportation By the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP Research Results Digest 331)
This report explores existing coordinated planning processes within state departments of transportation (DOTs) that meet the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA's) requirements. The report also examines aspects of those processes that will be useful to other state DOTs and their planning partners as they develop or revise their own planning processes.
- Annotated Bibliography of Human Service Transportation Coordination (PDF)(153 KB)
Prepared by the Small Urban and Rural Transit Center
- Coordinated Human Service Transportation Plans
- Coordinating Volunteer Transportation with Public and Human Services Transportation
- ITS and Human Services Transportation Coordination
- United We Ride Factsheets
- A Framework for Action
- Consortium Energy Guide (PDF) (309 KB)
- Emergency Preparedness Checklist (PDF) (132 KB)
Resources by Topic
Each of the links below will take you to a resource list on that specific topic. You can always return to this page by clicking the "Coordination Bookshelf" link in the right-hand side panel.
Contact
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