Using Public Transportation to Reduce the Economic, Social and Human Costs of Personal Immobility (1998) / Chapter Skim
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City of Fremont's Travel Training Project
City of Fremont's Travel Training Project
Pages 249-258
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In addition, using public transit gives the rider greatly increased flexibility to take trips when desired, instead of having to schedule trips in advance on paratransit. PHILOSOPHY BEHIND PROJECT DESIGN Beyond the transportation element of the program, the travel training project had a goal to encourage empowerment and independent living among participants.
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The last trip was also graduation. Participants got their pictures taken for the Regional Transit Discount Card and received certificates of completion and a free senior and disabled BART card, AC Transit pass, and Union City Transit pass.
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Because AC Transit and BART were, thus, paying for travel training through this new contract, they terminated their funding for the City of Fremont's Travel Training Project in June, 1994. Fremont, Union City, and Newark continued to fund Travel Training with the cities' allocation of a countywide transportation sales tax until June, 1 996, when a loss of other funds forced them to discontinue the project.
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~ ~ ~ · ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ tne untrained users took an average or 1ou/o more paratranslt trips than those Who were trained. However, because the sample size was small, "no statistical significance can be attached to the reduction in the number of trips by the trained group when applying standard statistical tests." Nonetheless, the evaluation concluded that "it is important to note that the reduction of paratransit trips for participants is consistent with increase of fixed-route trips for the same group, and therefore, it would suggest that trained participants are shifting at least some trips from paratransit to fixed-route travel.)
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Although this calculation assumes that only one-half of the paratransit trips were replaced by bus or BART trips, the actual paratransit trips replaced will vary greatly, depending on the profile of the population trained. For example, the participant in a wheelchair who was interviewed converted 100% of his paratransit trips to college classes into trips on AC Transit.
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CALCULATION OF ECONOMIC INDICES ~., Provider savings = potential provider ~$407,442 x 0.5 = $203,72 savings x proportion of bus or BART trips replacing paratransit trips Plus user savings $2S,440 Equals: total savings $232,161 Divided by program costs $120,000 Equals benefit/cost ratio 1.9 Total trips over 6 years 22,660 Net benefits per trip I $4.95 ll The user and provider savings shown above have been discounted at 4% interest to find their equivalent present worth for comparison with the program cost. Conversion of total savings and costs to equivalent annual amounts would result in annual savings of $52,150 versus annual costs of $26,956, still producing a benefit/cost ratio of 1.9.
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REFERENCES 1. Project Evaluation, June 1994.
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