Title: Developing an Evaluation Procedure of Regional Human Services Transportation
Abstract: Local public transportation providers provide the non-emergency human transport service to hospitals and doctor’s offices. Some requires specialized medical services at a hospital located out of the normal service area. In the Piedmont/Triad region, the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART) was established to coordinate regional transportation services. PART began the PART Connections in April 2004 to provide two daily transportation services between the Piedmont/Triad area and the Chapel Hill/Duke medical areas. This regular service eliminates the need for special arrangements for individual cross-county trips. For the first nine month period since its inception, 4,232 passengers used the PART Connections from four eastern counties in the Piedmont/Triad region. It is estimated that the PART Connections will save at least $137,000 of operation expenses annually to the four county transportation systems. Alternatively, it is estimated that the PART Connections enables the four county transportation systems to provide more than 10,000 additional trips within each county each year by using the freed-up resources. In addition, twelve local community transportation providers in fifteen western counties of the Piedmont/Triad region, which currently do not participate in the PART Connections, are estimated to save modest $6,000 in total annually by using the PART Connections. Two extension routes of PART Connections to the ten western Piedmont counties are suggested. The extensions will replace the transportation services to Winston-Salem currently provided by the local community transportation providers in ten western Piedmont counties and provide new regular transportation services to the Chapel Hill/Duke medical areas.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-31
Language: en
Type: article
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