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(o young program in Durham, DCA's primary source of ridership comes from clients of human service agencies. Although DCA operates the majority of its trips either to or from the City of Durham (which accounts for roughly 84% of the County's population), these trips do not supplant the ADA paratransit service provided by Durham Area Transit Authority (DATA) within the City. L^ach service is managed independently and serves different markets, although both vehicle fleets are operated by the same contractor, Laidlaw, and operated from the same facility in Durham. Operating hours for the two systems are the same. Orange Public Transit Orange Public Transit (OPT) is a local government agency within the Orange County Department on Aging. The system is managed by a full-time Transportation Manager, who reports directly to the Executive Director of the Orange County Department on Aging. This director, in turn, reports to Office of the County Manager, specifically the Assistant County Manager whose focus in human services. OPT serves all of Orange County outside the Chapel Hill and Carrboro city limits., The majority of OPT's services are based on regularly scheduled subscription trips, which are based on human service agency clients, but operate at consistent times and follow the same routes.. These hips are open to the general public, either at regular stops along the route or through advance request by telephone, Currently OPT operates nine subscription routes, seven demand response routes, four contract-only services, and one route deviation trip. Of the three systems included in this study, OPT is the only one to operate fixed routes in addition to demand response human service agency or general public trips. Wake Coordinated Transportation Service The Wake Coordinated Transportation Service (WCTS) is managed within the Wake County Human Services department of Wake County. WCTS is a part of the Operations Division. The director of WCTS manages one other supervisory position directly. Staff includes a Transportation Coordinator, Transportation Supervisor, Senior Account Tech, and Transportation Broker. The WCZS Director reports to the Director of Operations/ Deputy Director of WCHS The Transportation Supervisor manages the WCTS call center, also known as the Transportation Services Center (TSC). The TSC includes four full-time and four part-time agents., The largest of the three counties, Wake County operates the most geographically expansive service through WCTS. In addition to human service agency trips, which account for 95% of the total system ridership, WCTS operates the most geographically expansive general public service through its Transportation and Rural Access (TRACS) program,. The majority of Wake County is coral in nature, outside of the principal urbanized areas of Raleigh and Cary. The coral population is the largest of any county in the state. Triangle Regiorrul Transportation Development Plm: -Executive Sunnnary 4