Jason Kelly, Northern Arizona Council of Governments, at the National Rural Transportation Conference.

1. Northern Arizona COG ● Mobility Management

2. Mobility Management
A system approach to addressing mobility
demands by integrating and utilizing
transportation resources
(i.e. facilities, equipment, systems, services, functions, people and skills talents)
Coordinated Transportation Network

3. Blending …into a
individual collective
elements... system…
…to generate maximum yield

4. State Context
9 Planning Districts
ADOT goals
 Improve management of existing
assets
 AZ Institute 4 Coordination
 Strengthen Regional Human Service
Coordination Plans
 Develop Coordination Councils

6. NACOG Profile
4 Counties
48,000 square miles
(Louisiana)
41% Native American
Reservation land
350,000 pop.

7. Northern AZ
Population Groups
% w/ Persons per
Jurisdiction Population % of state % aged 65+
disability sq mile
Apache 71,518 1.1% 11.6% 17.2% 6.4
Coconino 134,421 * 2.1% 8.9% 12.1% 7.2
Navajo 107,449 1.7% 13.3% 21.4% 10.8
Yavapai 211,033 ** 3.3% 24.1% 16.1% 26.0
Region 350,000 8.2% 14.5% 16.7% 12.6
State 6,392,421 - 13.8% 11.2% 56.3

8. Northern Arizona = extremely rural

9. = low density

10. = isolated communities & resources

12. NACOG MM: Version ‘1’
Area Agency on Aging Planning
Title III Transportation Human Services
Coordination Planning
Technical Assistance,
Guidance, Standardization FTA Grant Programs
Strengthen resource & Data collection &
funding allocations management

13. MM Projects Underway
NON
EMERG
MEDICAL
 Sr. Cntr – Para Transit
NACOG DTD
AAA PROJECT
 COG AAA – NOMT
Senior
Center
 COG – MPO Senior Transportation Network
Development
 COG AAA – Para Transit Voucher program

14. MM Projects ‘on-deck’
 Interstate 40 program (COG Community Services
– Sr. Center partnership)
 2 – Local Mobility Management Programs
(operations)
 COG AAA – Para Transit Voucher program
 Catholic Charities inter-community service
 Tribal programs (AAA, Transit merge)
 New tribal transit implementation

15. Current landscape
Medicaid Children
Program Development
Disabilities Family & Families
Temporary Assistance Clayton School United Methodist
Assistance for District Church
Needy Families
Substance Abuse
Mental Health
Medicare & Health
HHS Medicaid Svcs Rural Transit
Health Operators Care
Resources
& Services Office of the Family
Secretary
Assistant
Ride Inc
Head Secretary Child Soc. Services
Start Planning Care Block Grant
Evaluation Bureau
ABC’s Transit Education
Aging
Community
Services
Centers for
Independent Living
State Governors
Disability
Rehab and
&
Rehabilitation
Services
Research Cabinet Secretaries
Administration
Employment
?
Federal
Education
Agencies ? ?
Office of Special
Education Programs &
Grant Shopping
$
Local
Office of Disability Government
Employment Policy
Labor
Recreation
Employment
Training Medicaid
Agency
Transportation
Office of the Urbanized Elderly
Secretary Grant Program & Blue Top Taxi
Disability
Program Independence
National Highway Federal Transit Easter Shows
Traffic Safety Early Learning
Administration Administration Rural Grant
Program Center
Metro Access
Departmental Job Access
DART
Office of Assistant Secretary Reverse Commute
Civil Rights for Transportation Program
Policy

16. A New Paradigm
Consumer with U.S. State & Local
Employment
Mobility Needs Government Funds,
Policies, and
Independence
Health Care Regulations
Family
Education
Recreation
One Call
Funding Agencies
Public
Private
Transit
Taxi
Authority
Transportation
Disability ADA Education Interior
Service Para-
Provider transit
Social
Labor
Security
Medical
Transit
Transit
Pass
Provider
HHS Housing
Agency Faith Transportation
on Based
Aging Transit
Service
Veterans
Head Providers Agriculture
Affairs
Start

17. Show Low Sr
Center Holbrook
Round Valley
Senior
Sr. Center
Center
Timberline
White Mt.
Non-Emerg
Apache Tribe
Medical
Little
Reeves Colorado
Foundation Behavioral
Health
Winslow
Council on
Proposed: Pinetop-
Lakeside Sr.
Aging Center
Eastern rizona Coordi
A
nated Specialized
Rim Country
Mobility program Bannon
Springs
Sr. Center Assisted
living
Solterra
NAU Civic
Independent
Service Inst.
Living
WM Public Mt. Top
Transit Transport
Community
Veterans Counseling
Center

18. Tips on keeping players @ the table
Strategy #1: Vision & Goals
Strategy #2: Don’t try to eat the whole elephant
Strategy #3: Relationships & partnerships
Strategy #4: Identify & utilize resource pool

19. Tips on keeping players @ the table
Strategy #5: Empower the locals; nurture a champion
Strategy #6: Regionalization: crossing boundaries
Strategy #7: Collect and develop data sets
Strategy #8: Food!
Strategy #9: WIFT
Strategy #10: Focus on people