Paratransit in America: Redefining Mass Transportation

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Paratransit challenges the conventional approach to public transport in the United States, which depends on fixed-route, fixed-schedule, publicly owned or regulated systems such as buses and trains. Paratransit is a type of service which relies on small vehicles which are frequently privately owned and operated, and which may not work on a schedule. The various options concerning service types, market niches, and effectiveness are discussed, along with the future of paratransit. Case studies describe paratransit systems in the U.S. and other places, and the interaction of paratransit with more traditional systems.

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"Cervero has written a very comprehensive description of the successes and failures of paratransit services in the US and abroad. Paratransit includes the entire range of flexibly routed bus, van, or small-vehicle services not (generally) driven by the passenger...The strength of the book is its comprehensiveness in describing paratransit services of nearly every type in every location...[T]his is an excellent, up-to-date resource..."-Choice
"Not since Ronald Kirby invented the term "paratransit" in 1972, and Charles Lave reinvented it in 1985, has a book on paratransit this important been produced....This book is obviously written to serve as a long-lasting research reference, and in that guise, it serves its purpose remarkably well. The book also is more than admirably suited to serve as the principal required text in a highly specialized course offering on paratransit....[The] only real question at this point is: When does the sequel come out"-Journal of Urban Technology
Cervero has written a very comprehensive description of the successes and failures of paratransit services in the US and abroad. Paratransit includes the entire range of flexibly routed bus, van, or small-vehicle services not (generally) driven by the passenger...The strength of the book is its comprehensiveness in describing paratransit services of nearly every type in every location...[T]his is an excellent, up-to-date resource...- Choice
Not since Ronald Kirby invented the term "paratransit" in 1972, and Charles Lave reinvented it in 1985, has a book on paratransit this important been produced....This book is obviously written to serve as a long-lasting research reference, and in that guise, it serves its purpose remarkably well. The book also is more than admirably suited to serve as the principal required text in a highly specialized course offering on paratransit....[The] only real question at this point is: When does the sequel come out- Journal of Urban Technology

Author Bio

ROBERT CERVERO is a Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California-Berkeley. Dr. Cervero has published three books and many journal articles concerned with public transport, and has frequently served as a consultant in this area.