San Luis Obispo - Caltrans - State of California
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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