Demand
Response Transportation (DRT) provide a necessary service to their community.
One of the biggest issues facing DRTs is the continued decrease in funding,
from Federal to State to the Local level. To continue to meet the needs of
their community, DRTs must evolve their service offerings to become more
efficient to meet the financial burdens. This does not have to require
eliminating service but redefining how they offer service and asking their
community to work with them to try and group more trips. To do this, DRT
providers need a suite of tools that can find patterns within their historical
origin and destination data to support changes to their service patterns that
will help to maximize their efficiency. The Demand Response Transportation
Planning and Visualization web-mapping application not only provides
visualizations of high areas of demand but also highlights patterns of movement
across their service area. In addition, this application provides a DRT with a
set of tools to help in redesigning service patterns that can simplify the
scheduling process, create a more intuitive operating environment, and increase
transportation effectiveness to their community.
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Splash screen that appears the first time the application is accessed
