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Updated May 10, 2010

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Solicitation for 2010 JARC and New Freedom Applications

Deadline: July 6, 2010

The Regional Planning Commission for Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. Tammany Parishes is soliciting applications for Federal Transit Authority (FTA) 5316 Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) and 5317 New Freedom projects.

See the Public Notices page for full information.

Coordinated Public Transit Human Services Transportation Plan for The New Orleans Metropolitan Area, Including the Parishes of Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard,
St. Tammany, St. Charles and St. John The Baptist

July 2009

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Purpose of the Plan and Areas to Be Served

The purpose of this Plan is to establish a coordinated human services transportation plan for Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, Plaquemines, St. Tammany, St. John the Baptist, and St. Charles Parishes.

The Plan was developed by representatives of public, private, and nonprofit transportation and human services providers and members of the public working together to create not only a one-time plan for improved coordination of human services transportation in the region, but also to establish an on-going process for continual coordination and improvement.

This document is an update to the 2007 Interim Coordinated Plan

The plan includes the following key elements:

	An assessment of transportation needs for individuals with disabilities, older adults, and persons with limited incomes
	An inventory of services providers that identifies areas of service (public, private, and nonprofit)
	Strategies and/or activities to address the identified gaps in service and achieve efficiencies in service delivery
	Identification of coordination actions to eliminate or reduce duplication in services and strategies for more efficient utilization of resources
	A discussion of priorities to be met by the plan and a process for establishing future priorities
	A process for continued coordination planning

The overall goals of the Coordinated Plan are:

	To improve the quality of service provided
	To make services more easily understood and accessible by riders
	To increase capacity and coordinate services to serve unmet needs
	To create a more cost-effective service delivery system
	To ensure that the coordination process is comprehensive and sustainable.

Overview of the Planning Process

Beginning in FY2007, the Federal Transit Administration under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFTEA-LU) requires that projects selected under the New Freedom (Section 5317), Elderly Individuals and Individuals with Disabilities (Section 5310), and Job Access Reverse Commute (JARC; Section 5316) programs be derived from a locally developed, coordinated, public-transit human-services transportation plan.

In addition, FTA regulations on the Rural Transit Assistance Program (Section 5311) require that these projects also be selected from a coordinated plan. According to these new regulations, the coordinated plan should be developed through a process that includes representatives of public, private, and nonprofit transportation and human services providers and participation by the public.

In order to meet these requirements, the Regional Planning Commission for Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, and St. Tammany Parishes, developed this Coordinated Public-Transit Human-Services Transportation Plan.

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