Dear H&T friends,

I have been serving as a panel member for a TRCP project at the intersection of Health and Transportation, and would like to let you know about a TRB webinar on this research. Please see below for more information on the project and the webinar.

Please feel free to forward to anyone who may be interested in this research.

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New Report on dialysis transportation. TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has released a pre-publication, of Research Report 203: Dialysis Transportation: Intersection of Transportation and Healthcare.  It can be downloaded using this link: http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/178786.aspx.  The report responds to major concerns of public transportation agencies about the rising demand and costs to provide kidney dialysis trips and about experiences showing these trips require service more specialized than public transportation is designed to provide. 

The report documents the complicated relationship of two different industries—public transportation and healthcare, each with its own perspective and requirements—to highlight problems, identify strategies addressing concerns, and suggest options that may be more appropriate for dialysis transportation.  Accompanying the report are a supplemental report and Excel spreadsheet. The Supplemental Report includes, along with a literature review and results from the project’s surveys, an assessment of the comprehensive data provided by the U.S. Renal Data System. The community data tool is an Excel forecasting tool. 

Webinar.  TRB is holding a webinar at 2:00 PM Eastern Time on May 13, 2019 on this research.  You can register for the free webinar using this link: https://lnkd.in/eyGAe5z.

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Thanks,

Ipek

Ipek Nese Sener, PhD

Associate Research Scientist

Texas A&M Transportation Institute

505 E Huntland Dr, Suite 455

Austin, TX 78752

Tel 512.407.1119 | Fax 512.467.8971

i-sener@tti.tamu.edu | http://tti.tamu.edu