Dig a Little Deeper:
Links, Resources, and Related Materials
Toolkit
Links: For a profile of programs in Santa Cruz and Contra Costa Counties (the "two areas in California that have gone the farthest in…meeting the mobility needs of welfare clients") see "Menus of Mobility Options: Santa Cruz and Contra Costa Counties" (Chapter 5 of the 2002 report
Reverse Commuting and Job Access in California: Markets, Needs, and Policy Prospects) by Robert Cervero et. al.).
For a quick overview of the recommendations of MTC's
Lifeline Transportation Network (LTN) Report
for how to improve transportation choices for low-income communities in the Bay Area, see the
Executive Summary of the report.
For a discussion of how transit systems around California are implementing improvements to provide low-income communities better access to jobs, see the paper
Job Access and Reverse Commute Initiatives in California: A Review and Assessment by Robert Cervero and Yu-Hsin Tsai published in
Transportation Research Board 2003 Annual Meeting CD-ROM.
The
Guidebook for Developing Welfare to Work Transportation Services published by Transit Cooperative Research Council presents practical advice for developing and implementing transportation services for low income communities, including guidance on doing community outreach to identify unmet transportation needs, estimating program costs, and developing a funding plan. (This Guidebook
can also be viewed
online as a PDF file).
Internet Resources: For more information on the three Bay Area children's shuttle programs discussed in this profile, check out the following websites:
For more information on potential funding sources for children's shuttles, see the following sources:
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For information of funding for children's shuttle programs in the Bay Area, see MTC's
Low-Income Flexible Transportation (LIFT) Program website. |
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For information on funding for children's shuttles that have the potential to reduce air pollution (by reducing car trips related to dropping off and picking up children from school or daycare) see the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's (BAQMD)
Transportation Fund for Clean Air
website. |
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For more information regarding grants from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for programs that promote transportation equity, check the
Caltrans
grants website. |
The
Community Transportation Association of America
(CTAA) has several excellent websites offering a wealth of resources and technical assistance related to community-based transportation (such as children's shuttles). These websites include:
TALC's website
includes an online Library
which provides access to numerous reports and studies related to transportation equity and strategies for meeting the transportation needs of low-income communities (all of these reports are in PDF format and can be viewed online or downloaded and printed out from your own computer). Full-color, bound copies of most reports in this Library are also available by contacting TALC at (510) 740-3150 or
info@transcoalition.org.
Some reports available from TALC include:
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Clearing the Road To Work:
Developing a
Transportation Lifeline
for Low-Income Residents
in Alameda County (see
especially page 19; this
report is also available
online as
PDF file directly from
TALC). |
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Helping Ourselves: How
to Design and Implement
Transportation Solutions
in Low-Income Communities
written by Mary K. Walther
and published by TALC
(this report is also
available online as a
PDF file directly from
TALC). |
Other Resources:
MTC has several articles, books, and studies related to improving transportation for low-income communities in the
Welfare to Work collection
of its transportation Library
open to the public. Some of these resources include:
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Transportation Affordability for Low-Income Populations: A Review of the Research Literature, Ongoing Research Projects, and San Francisco Bay Area Transportation Assistance Programs
written by Lynn Scholl and published by
the Public Policy Institute of California
(this report is also available online as a
PDF file from MTC). |
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MTC has completed a regional
welfare-to-work transportation plan
and county-level welfare-to-work plans for each Bay Area county.
These plans identify changes to the transportation system necessary to better meet the travel needs of CalWORKs clients, especially those traveling across county and/or transit district boundaries. All of these plans address the fact that providing safe and reliable transportation for children is a barrier for low-income parents in the Bay Area trying to make the transition from welfare to work. |
  
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