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5 Introduction to Travel Training The Promise of Travel Training Travel training offers the promise of improving the mobility of older adults while also helping public transit agencies control their costs. A simple graphic of this process is shown in Figure 2-1; a more complete logic model is discussed in Chapter 3.
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6constraints on funding for many public services, including public transit, travel training for older adults could have a significant impact on transit ridership and transit finances. This Handbook provides workable techniques for increasing the mobility of older adults through travel training programs.
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7 be expected, older nondrivers use public transportation more than older drivers. Recent surveys also show very low use of other alternative modes, such as taxis and human services transportation, by older persons.
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8situation has led transit agencies to undertake various efforts, including travel training, to ensure that potential paratransit riders understand the benefits of riding fixed route transit. Also, transit agencies are currently concerned about the future stability of funding sources that have traditionally supported public transportation.
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Consumers Transportation Providers Outreach to Partners and Consumers Better Understanding of Transit Services Better Understanding of Travel Needs of Older Adults Changes in Services Offered Improved Financial Conditions for Transit Improved Transportation Services and Options Changes in Travel Behavior Improved Travel Options Improved Quality of Life for Older Adults Senior Travel Training Orientations and Presentations Group Travel Training One-on-One Senior Travel Training Figure 2-3. Travel training for older adults theory of change.
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Figure 2-4. Travel training for older adults logic model.
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11 outputs, outcomes, results, and system changes. This logic model can be useful for travel training program managers and others interested in quality of life improvements for older adults.
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12 One-on-one training provides individualized instruction on how to travel safely and independently, including hands-on experience riding public transit. Group training provides an opportunity to orient a larger audience to the basics of public transit including how to plan and take trips.
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13 other human and social services agencies are often the result of regular and repeated outreach efforts to familiarize agencies with travel training in general and the services of the case study programs in particular. The focus of many programs in marketing travel training for older adults is to promote the lower cost and relative flexibility of fixed route programs as an alternative to ADA paratransit, allowing seniors the flexibility to travel without having to reserve ADA paratransit service ahead of time.
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14 personalities for the better." Based on follow-up studies of trainees, many travel training graduates continue to travel by fixed route buses and trains years after graduation. The benefits of travel training programs are reported by those programs in a large variety of ways.
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15 form of transportation assistance, usually by driving the older adults to destinations. Informal caregiving has been linked to poorer health and economic hardship among caregivers.
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16 – Ride Connection (Portland, Oregon) has developed partnerships with more than 30 separate partner agencies in the area, including adult and senior centers, mental health clinics, health care providers, and others.
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