Guidebook for Developing Welfare-to-work Transportation Services
Guidebook for Developing Welfare-to-work Transportation Services

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Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780309066648

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This report provides information about the role of transportation in supporting welfare-to-work initiatives and identifies practical strategies to improve access to job opportunities for former welfare recipients making the transition to work. The Guidebook describes service approaches that include modifications to existing mass transit services, coordination between transportation services, ridesharing programs, automobile ownership programs, and collaborations between faith-based and community-based groups.

Transportation Planning for Access to Jobs
Transportation Planning for Access to Jobs

Author: Melissa M. Laube

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Published: 1997

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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This report presents three case studies of innovative transportation planning efforts in metropolitan areas to improve access to jobs for current welfare recipients and other low income residents. These Access to Jobs case studies of the Hartford, St. Louis, and Detroit metropolitan areas focus on developing transportation solutions that meet locally defined goals and objectives and ensure that former welfare recipients have the needed mobility to reach employment opportunities. The experiences of each area offer a number of insights into how metropolitan transportation planning process might be applied in developing solutions to employment access problems. Topics discussed include local conditions, job access problem, types and characteristics of existing and planned services, impact of proposed solutions, organizational roles and responsibilities, context of planning effort, resource constraints, and planning methods.