Promising Practices

Mobility management professionals work collaboratively across sectors to create new promising practices that expand community members’ mobility.

Below is an ever-growing list of promising practices from communities around the country, listed with the most recent uploaded practice first. Click on the Topic menu to search for specific types of promising practices or simply scroll through to find one you are interested in.

Once you click on the practice, it will take you to a more detailed description.

Transit System Partners with Domestic Violence Victim’s Support Center

Date: April 19, 2024

Oklahoma City’s Embark transit service provides demand-response rides to domestic violence victims

Training Formerly Unhoused Individuals as CDL Drivers

Date: January 24, 2024

The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) partnered with the Mississippi Home Corporation (MHC) to provide CDL driver training and employment for unhoused people.

Taxi-Based Employment Program in Partnership with WIB

Date: December 20, 2023

In partnership with the local Workforce Board, FRTA received a grant to fund taxi rides for workers needing to get to second and third shift jobs during hours when public transit was not operating. In addition to getting a ride to work, participants could also stop at a childcare facility if they needed to drop off or pick up their children on the way.

Job Access

Medical Transportation Using Multiple Programs

Date: December 20, 2023

With a combination of Title 3 funding and private donations SeniorCare operates a volunteer driver program for medical transportation, using AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP volunteers. They also set out to become knowledgeable about other transportation options in the region, and to share that information with their riders.

Coalition of Agencies Subsidizes Microtransit

Date: December 20, 2023

The program not only expands clients’ access to mobility, but also promotes awareness of FRTA Access to agency staff. Once FRTA added the bike racks to the microtransit vehicles in March 2022, riders – not just from the partner agencies – immediately began to use them.

Outreach to Older Adults

Date: December 20, 2023

On the Go: Enticing Seniors to Try Salina’s Public Transportation program began in 2022 as a partnership between the Salina Senior Center, OCCK Transportation and the Mobility Manager for North Central Kansas. The goal of the program is to increase the number of senior citizens using Salina’s public transportation system.

Older Adults

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