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SAN LUIS OBISPO REGION<br />

COORDINATED HUMAN SERVICES-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PLAN<br />

arrangements for consumers. Usually this function does not involve any expenditure <strong>of</strong> funds<br />

by agencies. Second most frequent are those agencies who are subsidizing transportation<br />

on behalf <strong>of</strong> their consumers, through bus passes or tokens or mileage reimbursement (12<br />

agencies –20 percent).<br />

Figure 3-3 shows that those agencies operating directly represent 16 percent <strong>of</strong> respondents<br />

(10 agencies). Followed closely behind are those arranging for volunteer drivers (9 agencies<br />

–15 percent). 3 Responding public transit operators were grouped together for purposes <strong>of</strong> this<br />

question (8 agencies--13 percent <strong>of</strong> respondents). And agencies who contract with another<br />

entity to provide transportation were the smallest group (6 agencies–10 percent)<br />

Figure 3-3<br />

2007 Inventory<br />

Transportation Services Provided, n=61<br />

No transportation<br />

34%<br />

Arranges<br />

23%<br />

Subsidizes<br />

20%<br />

Agency operates<br />

Arrange for volunteer<br />

drivers<br />

Public transit to general<br />

public<br />

13%<br />

15%<br />

16%<br />

Contract with another<br />

entity<br />

10%<br />

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%<br />

Examining these reported relationships to transportation related to the agency’s legal status,<br />

some interesting differences emerge (Table 3-5) which uses the language provided in the<br />

survey to describe the transportation function. For-pr<strong>of</strong>it agencies were most likely to provide<br />

information assistance to the consumers but less likely to directly operate, contract or<br />

subsidize. Non-pr<strong>of</strong>it organizations were most likely to provide no transportation services (14<br />

agencies-52 percent).<br />

3 A question was raised about whether these agencies take responsibility for the liability <strong>of</strong> volunteer<br />

drivers or whether they require the driver to maintain his or her own insurance. This was not explored in<br />

the survey but could be an important follow-up question in subsequent work with volunteer-based<br />

transportation programs.<br />

30<br />

OCTOBER 2007

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