About
Human Services Transportation Plan
The City of Winston-Salem is updating their Human Services Transportation Coordination Plan to meet revised Federal and State requirements and to understand how to more effectively coordinate efforts between human service agencies, public transit providers, and private transportation providers to better serve persons with disabilities, individuals with limited incomes, and elderly adults in the Winston-Salem Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization boundary, which includes Forsyth County and portions of Davidson, Davie, and Stokes County. Cities and towns include Winston-Salem, Bethania, Lewisville, Clemmons, Kernersville, Walkertown, Rural Hall, King, Welcome, and Bermuda Run.
Project Area
A Coordinated Human Services Transportation Plan is a strategic plan that identifies the transportation needs of individuals with disabilities, low income populations, and elderly people within a community and assesses the current human services transportation options available in that area, and then develops prioritized strategies to improve transportation services and expand mobility options to better meet the unique needs of transportation disadvantaged populations. Public participation is vitally important for the development of a successful Coordinated Human Services Transportation Plan. In fact, it is required that “seniors, individuals with disabilities, representatives of public, private, and nonprofit transportation and human services providers and other members of the public” are involved in the Plan’s development and approval process (49 U.S.C. §5310).
