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rural areas who are clients of OCDSS requiring door -to-door service, on demand response, ~ 1 transportation to work sites, and employment search. Forty-eight percent of Work First clients spend 0 - 6 months on Work First. The State allows up to 5 years of public assistance and OCDSS works to avoid an applicant becoming a repeat recipient. Self-sufficiency for these workers is heavily dependent upon safe, reliable and affordable transportation 2. Plan Information: Required: ETS will address the following priorities as described by the project planning team: 1. Hire aMobility Manager. 2. Provide infra-county and cross-county services. 3. Provide an evening service and late night service (10pm- midnight) as needed. 4. Work to establish a universal fare card that works on all services. 5. Provide travel training for customers. ETS will work closely with OCDSS in planning efficient travel routes and to provide travel training for the targeted population to maximize service quality under this project. This can be achieved by allowing the four targeted groups to schedule similar trips at the same time. For example, persons enrolled in volunteer work and job search could be placed in the same area for employment, if they live in the same county. OCDS5 prefers participants to find employment in the same counties where they reside as this makes transportation easy to coordinate. Answer: 1 Name of Plan/Title Durham Cha el Hill Carrboro MPO lan 2 Page Number pa a 21 (where unmet needs are listed) g 3 ~ Approval Date ~ 2009 3. Describe how this project will produce measurable difference(s) in meeting the defined unmet transportation needs. Answer: This project proposes to expand geographical coverage of Orange County's current transportation plan to include Efland, Mebane and Cedar Grove . Affordable transportation is a barrier to low- income residents. ETS proposes to provide a voucher program to transport low- income and welfare recipients to job related activities to be administered by the Work First program at OCDSS. The number of vouchers utilized would serve as a measurable and reportable output. The mobility manager would provide travel training to increase use and knowledge of public transportation availability. Another item is the decrease in repeat clients to the Work First program due to unreliable and non-existent transportation as a direct cause of job Loss. OCDSS will track the number of vouchers it provides to former TANF clients while the mobility manager will target the number of one way trips coming through dispatch and the numbers of persons trained, the number of web hits and the number of units added through improved customer knowledge after implementing the Triangle wide "Bus to Work Week" as a measure to reduce the number of vehicles on highways and as a way to gauge customer feelings regazding mass transit. Estimate the annual number of new people served, the number of trips that will be provided from the proposed. project, and the average cost per trip. A trip is counted each time a passenger boards a vehicle no matter how many vehicles are used to travel from origin to destination.