Six Years of Coordination
February 26 marked the sixth anniversary of Executive Order 13330 on Human Service Transportation Coordination. But even before this important event, legal language existed to encourage coordination.
In a new web resource, Chris Zeilinger, Director of the National Resource Center for Human Service Transportation Coordination, enumerates the specific references to coordination in SAFETEA-LU that all stakeholders should know and understand.
Coordination: It's the Law is a useful online reference tool to find a number of citations directly from federal transit laws that spell out the statutory requirements to coordinate public transportation and human services, including the following:
- Coordination is required in metropolitan transportation planning;
- Coordination is required in statewide transportation planning;
- Coordination is required for urban public transit;
- Coordination is required in designing and providing transportation for elderly individuals and persons with disabilities;
- Coordination is required for rural public transit;
- Coordination is required in designing and providing Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) transportation services;
- Coordination is required in designing and providing New Freedom transportation services for persons with disabilities
Coordination: It's the Law also addresses the question of whether non-DOT programs are required to coordinate with public transportation. You can find this and other helpful resources about coordination at http://www.nrctransportation.org/.
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