Teaching · Related Services

The stop, the bus
and the student, trip by trip.

Ride the route with the student and record each trip: measure the boarding area and the narrowest sidewalk, check the ramp, securement and stop announcements, and note which steps the student did alone. Barriers to report and skills to practice come out of each trip.

Record a tripWhat you get
$5one-time · every device you sign in on
Buy · $5

Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Related Services toolkit, $99 for 96 items.

Trips

The worked example is a made-up student in a power wheelchair learning a route to a job site, with a cramped stop, a bus without announcements and two skills still to practice. Trips save on this device only, under student codes.

Loading the trip form. If nothing appears, turn on JavaScript.

What you get

Teaching · Related Services$5 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A record per trip with the student code, date, route, stop, mobility device and wait; boarding area and sidewalk measurements; five stop, five vehicle and five student checks; notes; flags for a boarding area under 60 by 96 inches, a sidewalk under 36 inches, missing announcements and a failed ramp; skills done alone per trip for each student.
Who it is for
Occupational and physical therapists, orientation and mobility specialists, transition teachers and job coaches doing travel training with students with disabilities.
Format
Browser checklist with a saved record per trip. Prints a trip, all trips or a blank form for the ride; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); exports and imports a file.
Access
$5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Bring a tape measure and measure the boarding area and the narrowest sidewalk on the way.
  2. Ride with the student and check the vehicle as it happens.
  3. Mark each skill as done alone or with help.
  4. Report barriers to the transit agency with the stop, bus number and time.
  5. Compare trips to see which skills to practice next.

Record a trip

Fixed route, paratransit and training

Three ways a student gets thereFixed-route bus or railRamps or lifts, securement, priority seats, stop announcementsADA paratransitWithin 3/4 mile of a fixed route, same hours, for riders found eligible; tripsbooked the day beforeTravel trainingPracticing the route until the student can ride it aloneThree ways a student gets thereFixed-route bus or railRamps or lifts, securement, priorityseats, stop announcementsADA paratransitWithin 3/4 mile of a fixed route, samehours, for riders found eligible; tripsbooked the day beforeTravel trainingPracticing the route until the studentcan ride it alone
Most students start with travel training on fixed routes; paratransit is there when a route or a stop does not work for them.

What the ADA requires

Public transit agencies must run accessible buses and trains, announce stops at transfer points, major intersections and destinations and any stop a rider requests, and let riders with mobility devices board. New or altered bus stops need a boarding and alighting area at least 60 inches along the curb and 96 inches deep. Where fixed routes do not work for an eligible rider, agencies must offer complementary paratransit.

Paratransit in brief

ADA paratransit serves trips within three quarters of a mile of a fixed route during the same hours, for riders the agency finds eligible. Agencies must take requests the day before, and fares can be no more than twice the fixed-route fare. Eligibility is decided by the agency, often after an in-person assessment.

Sources

  1. Code of Federal Regulations, 49 CFR part 37, Transportation Services for Individuals with Disabilities (ADA), including 37.131 (paratransit service criteria) and 37.167 (stop announcements).
  2. U.S. Access Board. ADA Accessibility Standards, section 810 (transportation facilities: bus boarding and alighting areas) and 403 (walking surfaces).
  3. Federal Transit Administration. ADA Circular 4710.1 (2015): fixed route and paratransit requirements.
  4. National Aging and Disability Transportation Center. Travel training resources (nadtc.org).

The worked example is made up. Measurements screen for barriers; whether a stop must meet a figure depends on when it was built or altered. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.