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17 Characteristics of Successful Travel Training Programs The Attributes of Successful Programs Key characteristics of successful travel training programs for older adults include at least the following elements: • Success means demonstrating that older adults who have completed travel training programs have already experi enced (or are quite likely to experience) measurable mobil ity improvements.
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18 people, not just to "get them off paratransit." Travel training can benefit transit agencies by increasing the use of public tran sit and contributing to a mobility options philosophy (pro viding people with more options)
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19 Understanding the local culture of senior citizens (a highlight of the Cambridge, Maryland, program) is vital, as is a com plete and thorough inventory of local transportation services.
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20 independent travelers and advocates who have shared in the RideWise experience. This book, whose development was paid for by TriMet, includes firstperson accounts of what it means to travel independently and to move about the com munity with purpose and without harm.
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21 service, RTA provides a monthly pass on a continuing basis for those who complete travel training and use fixed route service for their travel. For older adults not eligible for ADA paratransit service, RTA introduces travel training in a group session and selects one senior from a group to be the travel training advocate to encourage other seniors in the group to travel.
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22 • The RTA in Chicago believes that the following factors seem to be important: all but one of the travel trainers come from a social services background -- the other trainer comes from a rehabilitation background; the RTA Board is supportive; the oneonone training is very intensive; and the work is done inhouse with RTA employees, which makes management of the program easier for them. • The NJTIP program is successful, in part, because it dem onstrated that an existing program from The Kennedy Center, Inc.
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