Citation

Koffman D. Transp. Res. Rec. 1994; 1463: 61-71.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences USA, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

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Abstract

Public transit operators providing paratransit service to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act are focusing on paratransit as a form of supplementary public transportation. Much of the demand for paratransit service consists of trips that bring clients of social service agencies to and from programs of those agencies. For various historical and institutional reasons, this demand is considered different from the demand by unaffiliated individuals for nonagency purposes. To reduce their financial burden of compliance, the operators often desire to recover all or part of the cost of "social service agency trips" from the agencies. Two case histories are used to illustrate three issues connected with recovering the cost of agency trips: (a) How to determine or define which trips are agency trips and which are individual trips; (b) Reaching agreement on what is the appropriate fare or share of costs to be paid by the agencies; and (c) Determining the actual cost of the agency trips. A cost allocation model for paratransit service, which was used to determine the fixed and variable components of cost for eight different types of service offered by a single provider, shows how such a model is useful for policy decisions.

Language: en