Human Services Transportation Plan

Human Services Transportation Plan – Berks County, PA

The Human Services Transportation Plan (HSTP) summarizes the transportation needs for those people who have transportation challenges because of disability, low income or senior age. The Plan identifies transportation solutions to respond to these challenges.  The intent of the HSTP is to identify transportation needs and solutions thereby improving transportation services for people with disabilities, seniors and individuals with lower incomes. The development of a HSTP ensures that communities coordinate transportation resources provided through multiple funding programs. A coordinated plan can help enhance transportation access, minimize duplication of services, and encourage the most cost efficient transportation possible.

The development of the Human Services Transportation Plan brings together public, private and non-profit transportation and human services providers, agencies that distribute funds, riders and the community-at-large to improve special needs transportation throughout the region. The plan includes background information and geographic information of the distribution of existing public transportation services, as well as an analysis of human service transportation needs and recommended solutions.