Handling the fleet is always a great burden to the fleet operators. Vehicle fleet management gets easier nowadays by apps like Pikme etc.
Paratransit provides shared-rides, door-to-door and transit feeder services for daily trips and non-emergency transport. In most cities, paratransit trips must be reserved one to two days in advance. Typically, reservations are made by telephone, although some cities provide web-based reservation systems. In most cities, same-day paratransit trips are unavailable. Passengers are assigned pickup times, typically with 30-minute windows; they must meet the vehicle within five minutes of arrival under penalty of marked as a “no-show”.
Reforming paratransit systems’ policy, management and operational models is urgent and essential. The systems are interfacing with aging, often inaccessible transit infrastructure, sitting on the cusp of a sharp increase in the elderly population in cities across the United States and facing dramatically rising costs.
