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Coordinated Human-Services Transportation Planning – Overview
OVERVIEW • PUBLIC PARTICIPATION • SOLICITATION
The MPO´s Coordinated Human-Services Transportation Plan (CHST Plan) provides guidance for improving transportation services for people with disabilities, elderly individuals, people with low incomes, and reverse-commuters in the Boston region and facilitates the coordination of public transit and human-services transportation resources. The federal legislation that funds surface transportation, SAFETEA-LU, established that recipients of funding from any of the three Federal Transit Administration human-services transportation programs, (1) Elderly Individuals and Individuals with Disabilities (Section 5310), (2) Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC; Section 5316), and (3) New Freedom (Section 5317), must certify that the projects to be funded have been selected from a locally developed, coordinated public transit–human services transportation plan, such as the CHST Plan. Information about transportation-funding resources available through these federal programs is provided in the Plan.