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Fixed route bus, van and sedan routing for Adult Day Care, Senior Centers, Recreation Centers and Community Transportation Programs

October 27, 2022

  Organizations that need to transport clients can have very specialized and nuanced ways to provide and schedule that transportation. Typically a 10-12 person bus, 4-6 passenger van, or 2-3 passenger sedans are part of their transportation program. Some typical models of transportation using such vehicles would include: -transporting many clients from one central location…
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Flexible and empowering practices for your transportation service

October 26, 2022

Staff asking to work remotely and have flexible working hours? Are they juggling more job responsibilities due to labor shortages and demand? These are common complaints from organizations trying to keep up with the demand for their transportation services. Your biggest resource today is your staff and these new realities force different hiring and managing…
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Managing taxi services as part of your transportation program

October 26, 2022

  Transportation programs that provide rides to the elderly, special needs, and disabled community have a variety of potential ways to provide those rides. Options include volunteer drivers that use their vehicles, in-house owned vehicles such as buses/vans/sedans, Uber/Lyft ride-hailing services, or taxi services. The cost of these transportation options varies significantly from volunteer drivers…
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The benefits (and necessity) of paper in a digital software world

October 25, 2022

The ubiquity of cellular 5G or 4G data service across North America is a boon for people to be connected at any-time and any-where. Whether you are in a car in the middle of Texas or on a highway in Alaska 98% of the time you are able to watch your favorite YouTube video without…
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Better manage your NEMT transportation services anywhere and at anytime

October 18, 2022

Your and your team’s time is a scarce resource when running a NEMT (Non-Emergency Medical Transportation) service that is based on pillars of safety, reliability, and efficiency. If any one of those pillars becomes weak, your service’s success and ultimately your client’s satisfaction with your service can be at risk. To run your business in…
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Considerations when buying, building or maintaining transportation scheduling software

October 14, 2022

Consider the analogy by Alan Cooper (creator of one of the most popular computer languages on the planet) who said “Building a software program is like making a pile of bricks. The pile is one brick wide and 1,000 bricks tall with each brick laid right on top of the one preceding it. The tower…
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Automatic route planning for para-transit, dial-a-ride and demand response programs

October 8, 2022

Paratransit organizations have some of the most complex and demanding transportation scheduling requirements. With expensive-to-run vehicles, passenger requests constantly changing and hundreds of rides to route on a daily basis having software and dispatch automation is a necessity. Legacy software exists that has worked in this area for decades and although economically efficient for large…
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Are your scheduling practices obstructing volunteer driver growth?

October 4, 2022

The needs of modern volunteer drivers can be complex and ever-changing under the influence of gas prices, competition for their valuable time, and how engaged they are in your worthy cause to provide transportation services. That means from time to time, you’ll need to take a look under the hood at your scheduling process to…
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Simplifying the complexity of passenger payments, donations and ride accounting

September 25, 2022

With the passing of the American Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill in 2022, funding options for elderly, special needs, and disabled transportation programs have increased considerably for volunteer driver programs, Demand Response, Para-transit, and local community transportation programs. Although the exact distribution and management of those funds are still being worked out by the US Department of…
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Bus, van and sedan transportation for Senior Living Homes

September 21, 2022

81% of adults in the US who are 65 and older still have their driver’s license. As age increases, the percentage of active drivers decreases. That’s because with age comes cognitive and physical changes that impact the ability to safely drive and navigate roads. Senior Living homes understand this problem and actively take steps to…
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