National Center on Senior Transportation: Projects & Funding

National Center on Senior Transportation: Projects & Funding: "NCST Community & State Projects Working with communities throughout the United States, the NCST identifies effective and creative approaches for addressing the challenges that impact transportation services for older Americans. Whether from a rural, suburban or urban setting, the NCST strives to bring together the aging, human service, and transportation providers to create solutions. Our work supports the full “family” of older adult transportation services, including programs using volunteers both to driver and to accompany older adults to their destinations, travel training and orientation promoting increased use of public transit, older driver safety, education for caregivers, coordinated planning efforts and much, much more. The Center has a strong commitment to promoting innovations at the community level and has provided funding and technical assistance to support a number of specific projects across the U.S. These include:

• NCST-SURTC Business Plan Development Training (2008-2009),
• providing technical assistance to 5 aging coalition-building sites (2007-2008),
• funding 8 senior transportation demonstration projects (2008-2009),
• funding 11 targeted technical assistance projects (2008),
• supporting 6 state older-driver safety coalitions (2008-2009); and
• funding 5 student research projects.

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