Eastside Community Resource Center EZ Ride Transportation Project

EZ Ride provides transportation services to Detroit residents who are presently under-served, or not served at all, by mainstream public transportation. It uses a collaborative, comprehensive and community-based approach to bring transportation services to the public through the use of an automated scheduling and dispatch technology that can mobilize, coordinate and increase the use of existing transportation resources.

EZ Ride is modeled after the computer-based scheduling and booking systems that travel agents use to help airline passengers around the world access travel on a multitude of carriers. The goal of EZ Ride is to improve people's lives by substantially and sustainably increasing access to and usage of transportation services for residents. Those qualified for EZ Ride include the following:

Disabled Persons

Senior Citizens

People who need transportation to get to work

Individuals with special transportation needs

EZ Ride is administered by the Detroit Assistance Transportation

EZ Ride is administered by the Detroit Assistance Transportation Coalition (DATC) through its fidiciary, the Eastside Community Resource Center (CRAC). The objectives of the program are to:

Coordinate existing services – through an automated scheduling and dispatch system (ASDS) and central telephone call-in line – to involve the 5 DATC transportation providers operating throughout the city.

Obtain six lift equipped vehicles – to provide 30,000 rides to Welfare to Work clients at each DATC site.

Obtain two lift-equipped vehicles -- to provide 10,000 rides to Detroit senior citizens in a regional transportation program to access medical facilities in southern Oakland County.

Enhance the efficiency of the existing fleet of 14 lift -- equipped vehicles by increasing ridership and efficiency at the 5 DATC locations.

CRAC, under the leadership of John Slater, Executive Director, has secured millions of public and private resources to make this project possible.

For more information about the planned transportation services, call EZ Ride (313) 521-1900.