GATEWAYS TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVE
Ride in 55: West Virginia Transportation Caucuses
Huntington -Solutions/Suggestions
- Coordinate scheduling
- Creating local meetings in your community, transportation forums, community outreach
- Need diverse forms of communication - not just phone but internet-based
- Driver training, add stress and other components
- Consistency among programs regardless of agency location
- Increase vehicle capacity by using unused vehicles - compile list of agencies with vehicles (develop community partnerships resulting in shuttle service, agencies volunteering vehicles i.e., Mondays groceries, Tuesday movies; extended hours of service; extra overtime for drivers; using school buses in off hours)
- More rides will result in economic development
- Cost-sharing for fuel, other services
- Improve existing capacity - see what other services are already available
- Increase marketing - teach people how to ride, what services are available - have a bus fair with a scavenger hunt or poker run
- Create incentives to coordinate transportation (only mandated by some Fed agencies, no state agencies)
- Develop regional map based on demographics and needs; identify all stakeholders and hold project development meetings; include all media; create incentives to ride; create policy guidelines; make sure system is accessible and affordable to everyone in the region; intermodal system (what are your resources - train, air, water, highway, trails)
The West Virginia Transportation Caucuses are funded by the Medicaid Infrastructure Grant to Support the Competitive Employment of People with Disabilities, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - CFDA #1QACMS30059. The lead agency is the West Virginia Division of Rehabilitation Services. This program is managed by the Center for Excellence in Disabilities (CED).
