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Project ACTION
National Easter Seal Society
700 Thirteenth Street, N.W., Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
1-800-659-6428
Project ACTION (Accessible Community Transportation in Our Nation) is a congressionally created national technical assistance program authorized under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) and is managed by the National Easter Seal Society. Project ACTION provides training, resources and technical assistance to disability organizations, consumers with disabilities and local transportation operators. It maintains a resource center with the most up-to-date information on transportation accessibility.
The foundational work of Project ACTION is in promoting cooperation between the disability community and transportation industry. This work enables improved access to transportation for people with disabilities and the provision of accurate and practical information to help transportation operators implement the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Click here for Project Action's website
COACH
Academy for Educational Development
1875 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20009
1-888-89COACH (Toll-free phone/TTY)
202-884-8443 (fax)
COACH is a comprehensive, searchable database of transportation training programs that enable riders with disabilities to use public transportation. COACH is for anyone interested in using or providing accessible public transportation. COACH serves people with disabilities; families of people with disabilities; advocates; senior citizen groups; transit providers; and special education, transition, and rehabilitation professionals by providing information about training programs and expanding their knowledge about accessible public transportation needs and services.
Training Areas include:
ADA and other policy goals/regulationsinnovative technology usageinnovative equipment usagetransportation system usagedisability awarenessneeds of consumersuse of fixed route systemssafety regulationssafety techniquescollaboration and community relations
The Transportation Advocacy Project
5502 Kamin Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
412-421-8551 0r 412-421-5462; 412-421-5462(Fax)
The Transportation Advocacy Project is committed to increase the availability
of accessible, affordable transportation for all Pennsylvanians with disabilities.
To do this, TAP actively brings together, works with and provides direct
assistance to individuals and groups throughout Pennsylvania who are working
locally, regionally or state-wide to improve transportation options for
people with disabilities.
The Transportation Advocacy Project works with local leaders to organize
Transportation Roundtables, Transportation Forums, Local Information and
Strategy Meetings, Transportation Advocacy Training, and Individualized
Responses to Particular Local or Regional Group Concerns.
The project also publishes a newsletter, Advocate for Consumer Transportation
(ACT). The newsletter is devoted to providing information to improve transportation
choices for people with disabilities in PA. News from the PA Transportation
Alliance is also included in the newsletter. TAP also provides Transportation
Advocacy Briefs and an E-mail List-Serve which provides timely information
on transportation advocacy statewide and functions as a source of information
exchange among transportation advocates around the state and across disability
groups.
For questions or comments or to share what is happening in your local
community around transportation, call one of the numbers listed above.
IL and Rural Transportation (Special issue of the ILRU newsletter on rural issues, including transportation)
University of Montana Rural Transportation Project
CCD Taskforce on
Transportation
