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... test the feasibility of implementing fixed-route service in a new service area. VARIETY OF SERVICE DESIGNS Integrated services can take a variety of forms.
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... Assuming that spiraling paratransit costs and recent trends in the expansion of in-person eligibility assessments and travel training could contribute to an increased interest in implementing feeder service, more formal documentation of the effectiveness of various elements of program implementation would be valuable. Examples of these elements include determining skills needed for schedulers and dispatchers to use the multi-modal modules of the scheduling software, and how they can work together to facilitate integration; establishing productivity thresholds that are operationally feasible and cost-effective for integrated services; documenting transfer location criteria that easily could be replicable in other systems; documenting the most effective policies and procedures for integrated services; and disseminating these as models for other transit agencies to adopt.
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  • special training
  • specific trip
  • service design
  • integrated services
  • feeder service

  • integrated service
  • access service
  • connector service
  • transit agencies
  • transit community

  • productivity thresholds


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