Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility
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What's New
- On November 12, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and FTA published a Medicaid Coordination Fact Sheet to guide transportation coordination between state Medicaid agencies and state departments of transportation.
- The CCAM celebrates 20 years with the release of a video highlighting recent accomplishments. 2024 marked the 20th anniversary of the creation of the CCAM through Executive Order 13330: Human Services Transportation Coordination. Signed in 2004, the CCAM was created to improve access to transportation and mobility options for the three CCAM targeted populations: people with disabilities, older adults, and individuals of low income. Since then, the number of Federal CCAM programs has more than doubled – from 62 programs in 2004 to more than 130, making coordination all the more important. Together, the CCAM members have issued policy recommendations and implemented activities that improved the availability and efficiency of transportation for the CCAM’s targeted populations.
- In October 2024, FTA and the Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility announced the selection of the Community Transportation Association of America to administer the CCAM National Technical Assistance Center. As one of FTA’s six centers that help federal grant recipients and other stakeholders develop innovative transportation solutions, CTAA will support CCAM Federal members and their partners in improving transportation access for people with disabilities, older adults, and individuals of low income and help them get to everyday destinations. Funded with $2.5 million in the first year, the Center will go live in early 2025.
Overview
The Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility (CCAM) is a federal interagency council that works to coordinate funding and provide expertise on human services transportation. The CCAM focuses on programs for three targeted populations: people with disabilities, older adults, and individuals of low income.
The CCAM works to improve federal coordination of transportation resources and address barriers faced by states and local communities when coordinating transportation. Its mission is to issue policy recommendations and implement activities that improve the availability and efficiency of transportation for CCAM’s targeted populations, with the vision of equal access to coordinated transportation for all people.
The CCAM and its activities are established in federal law (Section 3006(c) of the 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act and 49 U.S.C. 5310 note) and originally was established in 2004 by Executive Order 13330: Human Services Transportation Coordination. Human services transportation fosters personal mobility by connecting people to their homes, jobs, education, medical appointments, and all their communities have to offer. Millions of Americans, however, are unable to access reliable transportation services due to a lack of mobility. Gaps in transportation services disproportionately impact people with disabilities, older adults, and individuals of low income, disconnecting them from their communities. The CCAM works to close those gaps and achieve its strategic vision of mobility for all.
CCAM Strategic Plan
On October 27, 2022, the CCAM adopted the 2023–2026 CCAM Strategic Plan. The CCAM hosted a webinar on November 30, 2022, to share the current plan, resource commitments, and implementation strategy.
View the presentation | Watch the recording
Visit the CCAM Strategic Plan to dive deeper into the plan’s goals, activities, and current performance measure progress.
CCAM Structure
The Secretary of Transportation chairs the CCAM, and 10 additional Federal department and agency leaders form the remaining CCAM membership. Nine of the 11 total CCAM members include:
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Education
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Department of Interior
- Department of Justice
- Department of Labor
- Department of Transportation
- Department of Veterans Affairs
These agencies currently support grant programs that can fund human services transportation. The additional two CCAM members— the National Council on Disability and the Social Security Administration— provide valuable expertise to enhance the CCAM’s ability to serve its targeted populations.
Technical Assistance
The Transportation Technical Assistance Coordination Library provides a sustainable methodology and platform to access resources through transportation technical assistance centers and FTA. Participating FTA-funded technical assistance centers include:
- National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC)
- National Center for Applied Transit Technology (N-CATT)
- National Center for Mobility Management (NCMM)
- National Rural Transit Assistance Program (National RTAP)
- Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC)
- Transit Workforce Development Technical Assistance Center (TWC)
Transportation Coordination
Coordinated transportation involves multiple entities working together to deliver one or more components of a transportation service with the shared goal of increasing capacity to provide trips. Coordination activities can include sharing passenger trips and vehicles, co-location of facilities, programs or services, collaborating on grant applications, state/local plans, training, vehicle purchasing or maintenance, joint hiring of mobility manager(s), federal fund braiding, and more. Visit the Transportation Coordination website to learn more.