Abstract
Transportation services provided by government-sponsored welfare programs are implemented more effectively in urban rather than rural areas. Urban infrastructure elements that facilitate reliable and inexpensive transportation do not exist in less densely populated rural geographies. Under current Welfare-to-Work legislation, wide latitude is provided to regional governmental agencies in the designation of transportation services subsidization for welfare recipients. A Central Texas government agency commissioned the creation of a systematic methodology to evaluate the prospect of developing a rural transportation infrastructure for welfare recipients. The result of the methodology, as detailed in this article, was a comprehensive Geographic Information System (GIS)-based evaluation tool for designating key components of a welfare-related rural transportation system.
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