Manual for Financing and Sustaining Low Cost Systems for General Public Mobility Programs in Rural Areas

摘要

The manual discusses the steps needed to plan, implement, and operate low cost rural public transportation using volunteers or a brokerage program as a source of cost-saving. The report is based upon a study of twenty such systems operating in many parts of the United States. The manual suggests that savings can run as high as ninety percent of program costs for most all-volunteer systems, but that these tend to be small programs. More common are systems which save ten to twenty percent by using volunteers as supplements.