MSAA Community Update

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• MSAA Community Update
• May 2009

Helping one person at a time find solutions
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• Executive Director
• Murray Calloway Transit Authority (MCTA)
• 270.753.9725 mcta_at_murray-ky.net
• Murray, KY
• www.murraytransit.com

Mr. Bjarne Hansen
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• Mr. Paul Maxwell
• Executive Director
• Fulton County Transit Authority (FCTA)
• 270.472.0662 transit5_at_bellsouth.net
• Fulton, KY

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• Ms. Kim Adair
• PATS Executive Director
• Paducah Area Transit Authority (PATS)
• 270.444.8700 kadair_at_paducahtransit.com
• Paducah, KY
• www.paducahtransit.com

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• Mr. George Kennedy
• VP Adult Services
• Easter Seals West Kentucky
• 270.443.1200 gkennedy_at_eswky.com
• Paducah, KY

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Purchase Area Regional Transit
www.ridePART.com 1-877-828-7287
Scheduled to open March 9, 2010
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P.A.R.T. Members

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How Did This Start?

• In February 2004, President Bush issued
• Presidential Order 13330
• requiring all relevant federal agencies to plan
  for a coordinated transportation system.
• http//edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/
  04-4451.pdf

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Transportation Challenges
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Federal Interagency of Coordinating Council on
Access and Mobility

• CCAM is comprised of 11 Federal agencies who
  recognize
• transportation can be a major obstacle for
  people.
• www.ftawebprod.fta.dot.gov

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Federal Interagency of Coordinating Council on
Access and Mobility

• Department of Transportation
• Department of Justice
• Department of Labor
• Department of Education
• Department of the Interior

Department of Veterans Affairs Department of
Health Human Services Department of Housing
Urban Development Department of
Agriculture Social Security Administration Nationa
l Council on Disability
www.ftawebprod.fta.dot.gov
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What is Mobility Services for All Americans?

• MSAA is a research initiative created by the
  USDOT
• To increase mobility, accessibility and rider
  ship through integration of transportation
  service and resources through the use of
  technology.
• www.its.dot.gov/msaa/

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Mobility Management?

• Mobility Management is an innovative approach
• for managing and delivering coordinated
  transportation services to customers including
  older adults, people with disabilities, and
  individuals with lower income.
• Meeting a customers needs through a wide range
  of transportation options.
• http//www.unitedweride.gov/Mobil
  ity_Management

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Federal Transit Administration and United
States Department of Transportation

• In April 2006, USDOT and FTA released open and
  competitive Requests for Proposals (RFP) to
• design model coordinated human service
• and public transportation service centers.

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FTA and USDOT

• MSAA research initiative
• December 2006 8 organizations
• were chosen from a
• nation wide list of applications
• to design a TMCC model.

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MSAA Research Initiative 8 sites chosen in
December 2006
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MSAA Research Initiative Grants

• December 2008
• 3 final organizations were chosen
• 2,800,000.00

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MSAA Research Initiative Grant
Recipients
Lower Savannah Council of Governments Savannah,
GA Camden County Workforce Investment Board
Camden, NJ Paducah Area Transit Paducah, KY
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Purchase Area Regional Transit
Murray Transit, Fulton Transit, Easter Seals West
KY and Paducah Area Transit were awarded 1.5M
to create a replicable and scalable model to
deploy a regional TMCC.
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Goal and Mission

• to provide customers with a single point of
  access to receive regional transportation, human
  services and community information facilitating
  greater personal mobility for all individuals in
  the Purchase Area region.

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The role of
ITS
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Our TMCC regional vision
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Role of the Regional TMCC

• A place, phone number, web-based site where
  people can get information about services and bus
  passes/vouchers
• Learn about eligibility and become eligible
• Receive travel training and travel orientation
• Schedule rides / Check on ride status
• Have that ride dispatched to a provider

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ITS and Technologies

• Rideshare matching
• Integrated billing
• Electronic fare payment
• Automatic passenger counting
• Automatic vehicle location

• Mobile data terminals - MDT
• Traveler information - 511
• Computer aided dispatch
• Internet websites 24/7
• Interactive Voice Recognition -IVR

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Key Goals for Coordinated Transportation

• Do more with existing resources
• Enhance mobility within and between
  communities, meaning increasing access to
  multiple destinations and opportunities
• Generate new revenues for transportation services

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Benefits to Transportation?

• Reduced costs, duplication and fragmentation
• Increases services and productivity
• Reduced expenses for operating and
  administrative salaries
• Reduced capital expenses for vehicles and
  equipment
• Reduced insurance, maintenance and other costs

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How Coordination Works

• Increases days and hours of service and broadens
  service areas
• Increases accessibility and affordability
• Increases kinds and amounts of public
  information on community services
• Increases kinds and amounts of federal local
  funding to pay for trips

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Improvements for everyone!

• Community wide focus economic development
• More information and better information - riders
• Greater accessibility for persons with
  disabilities, no matter what the disability
  helping more people
• Better reliability and punctuality supporting
  more people
• New fare and cost strategies, more co-payments -
  affordable
• Systems and drivers more helpful and customer
  friendly

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Who Will We Support?

• People with disabilities needing regular
  transportation to employment
• Seniors who dont know how to ride the bus but
  want to learn
• Children who need a ride home after late
  scheduled class activities
• Hospitals with transport needs for patient
  discharges.
• Single mothers with children needing rides to
  daycare then employment
• Home bound seniors needing escorted rides to
  medical and shopping

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Special thank you

• Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
• Purchase Area Development District (PADD)
• City of Paducah and McCracken County Fiscal Court
• MSU Regional Stewardship Outreach
• United Way of Paducah McCracken County
• Congressman Ed Whitfield
• Senator Mitch McConnell
• Senator Jim Bunning

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Ms. Zana Renfro

• Questions or concerns?
• TMCC Coordinator
• 1-866-828-7287 zrenfro_at_paducahtransit.com