Effective Transportation is Essential

Effective transportation looks as varied as the people within the community it serves. The more rural the locality, the more important it is to connect every available asset together, assuring everyone has the ride they need, every time. ACTiN (Advanced Connected Transportation Network) is not a transportation service, it is an integrated platform leveraging multiple novel technologies to connect the user to every appropriate option, whether for work, school, appointments, or any other important need in life.

Public Transportation in Rural Areas

The goal of public transportation is to “provide communities with access to jobs, schools, healthcare, and other opportunities and essential services.” In smaller cities and rural areas where bus service is ineffective, this amounts to supporting all manner of safe and reliable transportation. Our society packages things in silos, and transportation is no different.

Our proven model doesn’t build a better silo, it connects all of these silos together while enabling the creation of new ones – like coordinated volunteers – maximizing access to all available resources and breaking down barriers to a healthy and happy life.

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Taxis

If you think taxis are outdated and ultimately going away, think again. The taxicab may be the greatest transportation opportunity of the small city or rural area, provided some modernization is added to the mix.

While in the US we still think of “ride hailing” services like Uber and Lyft as a different kind of business – so-called “transportation network companies” – in reality they are taxi companies and are treated as such in Europe1. The real difference is that they are regulated at the state level, whereas taxis are regulated locally. Which means taxis in your town are as good (or bad) as you make them.

By creating a public-private taxicab option, the financial benefits of being a public transit vendor can be used to incentivize – and require –a higher quality service. Localities control the type of vehicles, the qualifications of drivers, the cost of service, and all the details that can make a business valuable to the community. But our array of technology is what can redefine what you think of when you hear the word “taxi.”

The ability to hail a ride through a digital platform is not limited to transportation network companies like Uber. Our software combines every imaginable ride request including on-demand and pre-scheduled rides into a single platform. Beam.live includes the nation’s only NTEP/NCWM certified GPS-based taximeter and an array of cloud-based CaaS capabilities that bring unparalleled safety and connectivity to this critical community asset.

Employee Transportation

The ability to get to and from work is arguably the most important component of any community transportation system. The federal government allows an employer to defer up to $315 per month per employee in a transportation spending account2, but localities that lack an effective transportation system have no way to take advantage. By unifying all of transportation onto a single platform that has modern GPS capabilities, rides that initiate or end at the individual’s place of work can be paid for from this account, regardless of the provider. Now a taxi driver or even a coworker can be reimbursed for transportation costs from tax-free earnings, reducing the cost of living. Communities can opt to use an existing electronic fare platform such as Masabi, a universal electronic fund transfer company such as Stripe can be employed, or a local bank can build a valuable asset that benefits the entire community if so desired.

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Volunteer Transportation

No matter how connected the community, there will always be gaps. The best way to fill gaps is with volunteers, which is why we put so much into the development of technology that safely and conveniently connects volunteer drivers to community needs, enabling them to aid when and where their motivation takes them.

A comprehensive background check of drivers assures safety of all involved. Ride requests are typically entered by a qualified administrator at an approved partnering organization such as the Department of Social Services, Department of Health, or a trusted community non-profit. Drivers can see the origin of the ride request as most of us have past experiences that inspire us to help our neighbors in need.

As a valuable component of community transportation administered by the locality itself, utilization metrics can be attributed to the public system as they are the facilitating entity, not unlike getting something – in this case a very valuable something – for nothing.

Non-Emergent Medical Transportation

Access to healthcare is not just a challenge for under-resourced populations, it is a widespread challenge for rural areas where specialty care – and sometimes any care – can be miles and miles away. Our technology partner MedTrans Go brings the most advanced solution for coordinating all forms of non-emergent medical transportation (NEMT) through a single portal.

With an integrated community-wide platform, everyone can get to their most important appointments, reducing no-shows and missed appointments that cost the US health system $100 billion annually and result in unmeasurable down-stream reduction in outcomes.

Other Connected Transport Systems

The novel architecture of our software allows a locality to build any number of transportation “networks” or groups of drivers, custom configured to the assets and needs in the community, all interconnected. K-12 education, universities, health systems, retirement communities, business and tourism support, churches, or anything else imaginable can be served by public or private systems where you design all of the qualifications and standards that are needed to improve the mobility and lives of everyone.