RideKC Freedom On-Demand Pilot: Leveraging Existing Contracts for On-demand Paratransit

The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) and Transdev have partnered to create the new app-based, ridesharing service, RideKC Freedom On-Demand. Launched on March 1st, 2017 to two study areas, this one-year pilot program provides accessible, on-demand, and subsidized rides to paratransit users in the study areas (Fig. 1), and is available to all riders (and paratransit riders, without a subsidy) throughout the KCATA service area...