86 CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS GUIDE We thank the following for contributing or reviewing the content of this publication. Publisher: Access Exchange International (AEI), San Francisco. AEI is a non-profit agency with twenty years of experience in the promotion of all modes of accessible public transportation in less-wealthy countries. The Board of Directors of AEI is composed of Marc Soto, President; Cheryl Damico, Vice-President; Bruce Oka, Secretary; Lucy Crain, Treasurer; Ike Nnaji; Tom Rickert; Peter Straus; Richard Weiner, and Susan Worts. Editor: Tom Rickert, Executive Director of Access Exchange International. Tom was Paratransit Coordinator for San Francisco's municipal transportation agency for ten years prior to stepping down to found Access Exchange International in 1990. Since that time, he has reported on paratransit services in dozens of countries in the AEI newsletter and made presentations on accessible public transit modes in twenty-five countries. Tom prepared several sections of this guide. Main contributor: Richard Schultze wrote several sections of this guide and contributed to several others, based on his thirty-five years of experience in public transportation. Richard recently retired from his position as Executive Director of the Greene County Transit Board (State of Ohio, USA). Richard's contributions to the guide summarize his more detailed document which is posted on our website at www.globalride-sf.org/paratransit/supplement, for use by those who wish to go into greater detail concerning topics introduced in the guide. Case study preparation: We thank each person interviewed for the various case studies, listed at the conclusion of each study. Special thanks to individuals who carried out on-site interviews and coordinated or prepared case studies in the following cities. Richard Weiner - Cape Town Elena Goubenko - Moscow Tulay Atalay - Istanbul Tom Rickert - New Delhi (in coordination with Abha Negi and her colleagues at Svayam) Halimah Abdullah - Author of the case study from Kuala Lumpur Reviewers: Those who reviewed all or portions of this guide merit special thanks. However, they are not responsible for any inadequacies in this introductory publication. Affiliations are mentioned for identification purposes only: Julie Babinard, The World Bank, Washington Andrés Balcázar, abc-discapacidad, Mexico City Lucy Crain, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus, Univ. of California, San Francisco Ranjith de Silva, Int'l Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD), Sri Lanka Nicolas Finck, past President, Access Exchange International James J. McLary, Owner and President, e2 Taxi, Bloomington, Indiana CGB (Kit) Mitchell, Transport Research Laboratory (retired), United Kingdom Aychesh Molla, Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development, Addis Ababa Abha Negi and her colleagues at Svayam, New Delhi Jamie Osborne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Marc Soto, Paratransit Broker, San Francisco Peter Straus, Director of Service Planning, S.F. Municipal Transport'n. Agency (retired) Russell H. Thatcher, TranSystems, Boston Kate Toran, Paratransit Manager, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Richard Weiner, Principal, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, San Francisco
We thank the following agencies for financial support for this guide. Access Exchange International AEI is the primary sponsor of this <strong>Guide</strong> through donations to our work provided by individual donors. The work of all those preparing this <strong>Guide</strong> was provided entirely or mainly pro bono to further our mission of promoting accessible transportation around the world. We thank Foundation Veolia Environnement for funding for dissemination of print and electronic versions of this <strong>Guide</strong> as well as travel related to its dissemination. (continued) 87
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