Provision of Alternative Services by Transit Agencies: The Intersection of Regulation and Program (2023) / Chapter Skim
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Flagstaff 's transit agency, Mountain Line, monitors and reports monthly ridership on its taxi subsidy program, the alternative service in the City of Flagstaff and Coconino County; see Figure 5-1. The decrease that starts in March 2020 results from the COVID pandemic.
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tracks various data and reports performance measures for its alternative service, including total cost, total trips, and average cost per trip (Table 5-1)
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VIA uses federal Section 5310 funds for the taxi subsidy program which reduces the transit agency's average cost per taxi subsidy trip; for 2020, that cost is $4.23, about 90% less than the average cost for an ADA paratransit trip. Table 5-2. Savings to GRTC from the alternative service, CARE On-Demand.
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explained its efforts in reviewing cost reduction from implementing its on-demand service for ADA paratransit riders: "We have compared whether aggregate per-customer travel increased or decreased over time (trips/month) but the goal with our on-demand service was unit cost reduction -- we want to increase capacity per dollar." Report to the Board Once the data are analyzed and the alternative service evaluated, those findings can be reported to your transit agency's board and other policymakers.
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revised its original alternative service that used paper vouchers to a taxi payment card. At the same time, Mountain Line gave the program a new name, Mountain Line Paratransit Taxi Program.
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1. In the planning phases, it will help you estimate the costs and potential savings of the ADA paratransit service and the alternative service based on expected ridership and different what-if subsidy scenarios.
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ASET is intended as a planning and evaluation tool to estimate results from alternative service parameters as well as costs and ridership. The planning calculator is built using examples of alternative services and subsequent paratransit service demand growth rates calculated from researched transit agencies with alternative services in this project.
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6-2 Provision of Alternative Services by Transit Agencies: The Intersection of Regulation and Program Figure 6-1. ASET welcome tab.
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For your paratransit service, you will need the total operational cost and trips from the past year as well as the annual paratransit trips for the previous five years before the alternative service was implemented. For total operational cost, you may use either the total blended cost for paratransit service (variable plus fixed costs)
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Figure 6-3. ASET cost savings calculator tab.
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• Total paratransit trips: enter the total trips for your paratransit service over the last fiscal year or the last twelve months of service (the same period you used for total operational cost)
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