paratransit
nounUS /ˌpeɪɹəˈtɹænzɪt/
Etymology From para- (“beside”) + transit, perhaps influenced by paraplegia. US from 1972.
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US An auxiliary transit service without fixed routes or schedules, usually serving the disabled on demand.
- The disability community had hoped that the submission of ADA complementary paratransit plans to FTA would constitute an opportunity for real monitoring of local progress and that FTA would take action to ensure that transit agencies were in compliance with their plans.2000, Marco Bristo, Promises to Keep: A Decade of Federal Enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act, page 279:
- So about twice a week, he calls a day in advance to arrange a trip[…] through Access-a-Ride, the city’s door-to-door paratransit service for the elderly and the disabled.2009 January 18, Gregory Beyer, “For Disabled Riders, New Bumps in the Road”, in New York Times:
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- In developing countries the form of paratransit modes range from simple non-motorized human, mainly hand-drawn or pedal-driven, or animal-powered vehicles to motorized minibuses.2010, Kenneth Button, A Dictionary of Transport Analysis, page 295: