Transcript Mobility Management in the River Valley Region

Jarrod McCarthy
River Valley Regional Commission
Mobility Manager
The River Valley Region
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What Are the Available
Transportation Programs?
 Public Transportation: Anyone within the service area
can ride, provided that they pay a fare.
 Medicaid: Non-emergency medical trips for people
that meet certain criteria.
 Department of Human Services (DHS): In our area,
DHS is most commonly used to provide job-based
trips for job training, interviews, etc. for individuals
that meet certain criteria, as well as trips to and from
Senior Centers for older adults.
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Benefits of Mobility Management
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Increasing coordination among different
transportation funding sources so that the required
local match amount can be reduced
Example of How Coordination
Improves Cost Efficiency – Part I
How you can utilize your 5311 (Public Transportation) program
to aid your DHS or Medicaid program:
 You pay 100% of the cost of your vehicles if they are only
being used for DHS or Medicaid transit
 If you coordinate by also using the vehicles for 5311, 5311
pays 80% of the vehicle cost with federal funds, 10% with
state funds, and the remaining 10% must be paid for locally.
 You save 90% of the vehicle purchase cost by using the
vehicles for both programs
 Important to note that 5311 trips must take priority over
POS service trips, but it is feasible to accommodate this.
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Example of Coordination Improving
Cost Efficiency – Part II
How you can utilize your DHS or Medicaid program to match your 5311 public
transportation program:
 If we assume you have a $100,000 5311 operating budget:
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10% must come from fare box
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Remaining $90,000 is 50% federal and 50% local match
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Some of your DHS and other programs can supplement the 50% local match
 For matching, you can use: TANF, DFCS, Title 3 Social Security, DOL, some Behavioral
Healthcare and Disability, and Medicaid
 CanNOT use 5310, 5316, 5317
 The difference is that you can only use federal non-transit funds to match federal transit
funds
 Coastal RC managed to lower the local match from 50% to 10% by regionalizing (POS
covers 40%)
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Benefits of Mobility Management
2. Increasing coordination to maximize the number of
passengers from each funding source that are
utilizing a single vehicle in order to reduce the cost
per trip.
3. Identifying additional funding sources to increase
the diversity of people served and community needs
addressed. (See hand out.)
4. Inter-System Cooperation
Benefits of Mobility Management:
Cooperation
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Tying systems into one another
Exploring cost sharing options between transit
systems to reduce rates
Exploring the opportunities for joint transit systems
and their potential financial and improved service
benefits.
Advantages of Joint Transit Systems
 Shared Administrative Costs
 Shared Cost of Building and associated bills (electricity,
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water, etc.)
Residents may be able to ride further distances
Easier for residents to access and navigate.
Marketability of a universal name, logo, and slogan.
Easier to achieve coordination and the resulting cost
efficiencies.
Re-Investing Saved Funds
 Cost efficiencies resulting from increased
coordination, cost sharing, and/or joint systems, etc
can in turn be used to accomplish transit
improvements including, but not limited to:
 Increase Service Distance and Fill Service Gaps
 Extend Hours of Operation
 Hire Additional Staff
 Upgrade Facilities
Deliverables
 Existing Conditions Report
 Regional Directory
 Performance Measures
 Financial Model
 Coordination and Action Plan
 Formation of the Regional Transit Advisory
Committee
Local Outreach
 The RVRC Mobility Manager plans to visit each county
to present and discuss transportation enhancement
information relevant to that geographic area.
 Cities and other pertinent entities and groups are
invited/welcome as well
 This extra effort will bring critical information to a
much larger number of elected officials and staff
beyond the Regional Transit Advisory Committee.
 Much of the information is organized into maps for
ease of use.
Other Endeavors
 Established the Pataula Regional Transit System and its governing
body, the Lower Chattahoochee Regional Transit Authority to serve
Quitman, Randolph, and Stewart counties.
 Serve as the administrative arm of the transit authority for the joint
system and attend all meetings to advise
 Administer a DHS program for 8 western River Valley counties.
 Helping with any miscellaneous issues such as:
 Needs presented by the nursing homes or Ombudsman office
 If operators in our area had been having any trouble finding quality
drivers, we were prepared to step in to help facilitate uniform hiring
practices, if requested.
 Presentations to groups such as local chapter of the National
Federation of the Blind
 Presented to the GDOT/Governor’s Development Council Technical
Coordinating Group and Department of Public Health staff.
Want to Know More?
Jarrod McCarthy
Mobility Manager
River Valley Regional Commission
706-660-5371
[email protected]