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Working group recommends targeting dialysis and other long, frequent trips to expand shared rides and ease O&D costs
Summary
A Section 28 working group recommends permanent coordination between transit providers and health systems, pilots to pair dialysis patients into shared rides, and better volunteer sharing and scheduling software to reduce O&D costs and free volunteer capacity.
A working group convened under Section 28 of last year’s transportation bill recommended that Vermont focus near‑term coordination efforts on long, high‑frequency medical trips — particularly dialysis — to create more shared rides and reduce pressure on the Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities (O&D) program.
Steven Falbel, the consultant who led the Section 28 report, told the House Transportation Committee that the working group (VTrans, AHS, transit providers and health systems) met five times from October through December 2025 and identified dialysis trips as the top near‑term target because patients typically travel multiple times per week to distant facilities. "The primary target we identified are long trips with high frequency; the best example of that are dialysis…
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