paratransit

plural paratransits

1. UScountableuncountableAn auxiliary transit service without fixed routes or schedules, usually serving the disabled on demand.First known use 1972.

   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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   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

   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

   Synonyms: community transport