Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Review and summarize relevant literature on alternative services used by individuals with disabilities. 2. Document current federal regulations, statutes, guidelines, and FTA standards and procedures. 3. Identify regulations that might pose barriers to deployment of alternative services. Explain how these regulations, when applied, may create barriers. 4. Collect transit industry data to understand and catalog (a) the extent and to which individuals with disabilities are using alternative services for new trips versus replacement trips and why; how these programs enable individuals to have more freedom when and where they make trips; and the advantages and disadvantages with using these services for individuals that require a wheelchair-accessible vehicle; (b) whether or not transit agencies are actually successful in reducing overall paratransit costs by implementing alternative services and how different ADA paratransit service models change the cost equation, especially for the types of trips with the most potential savings; (c) data required to be reported by providers to transit agencies and data tracked in order to measure the mobility benefits and costs savings; and (d) models of alternative service used by the agencies.
