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49 <br /> Chapter 2: Costs and Funding <br /> Table 2-4 presents the estimated cost per trip for each program/service compared to the <br /> payment received. This provides information on how county funds subsidize the different <br /> programs. <br /> Unfortunately, it is not currently possible to directly compare the total funding from each <br /> source to the costs of the trips that are funded by that source because each of these services is <br /> not dedicated to a particular user group/funding source. This practice increases system <br /> efficiency, lowering overall costs. For example, Medicaid funded trips may be scheduled on <br /> vehicle routes that include the "medicals" route, or one of the dialysis routes so we cannot <br /> allocate the cost of"medicals" and then compare it to the total revenue from Medicaid. We can <br /> see that any trip on those two services costs more than the $12.75 per trip paid by Medicaid <br /> (though not by a huge amount). Similarly, the services to nutrition sites are not one hundred <br /> percent dedicated to those riders; there may be a medical or prescription trip or a general <br /> public trip blended in. For all of the Senior Center services, we can see that the cost per trip on <br /> those services is well above the $6.8o that the Aging program is able to provide. Similarly the <br /> Orange Enterprises' (OE) services at $12.72 per trip cost more than the $i.00 provided by OE, <br /> but the subsidy per trip is almost the same as the $io.67 per trip subsidy cost for the fare-free <br /> Hillsborough Circulator. <br /> Dedicated general public trips are those on the Hill-to-Hill mid-day route and the Hillsborough <br /> Circulator. Other general public trips may be scheduled on the other demand response routes <br /> but are currently not tracked separately from the service. For demand response services it is <br /> likely that there are few true "general public" rides at the current $12.75 per trip price as the <br /> sum of the specialized program ridership is pretty close to the total demand response ridership. <br /> Part of the evaluation depends on the perspective of the evaluator;Are OE trips "client trips" or <br /> are persons going to OE destinations part of the "general public"? <br /> KFH <br /> NCDOT Orange County 33 <br /> Transit Assessment Study <br />