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16.40.290 TNC Accessible Service Requirements.

City Code Section
  1. TNCs must provide reasonable accommodations to passengers with disabilities, including to passengers accompanied by a service animal, passengers with hearing and visual impairments, and passengers with mobility devices.
  2. A.  Accommodations to passengers accompanied by a service animal.
    1. 1.  Requests for service from a passenger accompanied by a service animal may not be refused.
  3. B.  Accommodations to passengers with hearing and visual impairments.
    1. 1.  TNCs must maintain at all times mobile apps or online dispatch services available to customers in accordance to W3C guidelines and ADA Section 503 requirements pertaining to hearing and visual accessibility.
    2. 2.  TNCs must maintain customer service support services pursuant to Subsection 16.40.240 H. in accordance to W3C guidelines and ADA Section 503 requirements pertaining to hearing and visual accessibility.
  4. C.  Accommodations to passengers with mobility devices.
    1. 1.  TNCs must reasonably accommodate passengers with canes, walkers, or other mobility devices that can readily fit within a non-wheelchair-accessible TNC Vehicle.
    2. 2.  TNCs must maintain at all times mobile apps or online dispatch services available to customers that request a wheelchair-accessible vehicle (WAV).
    3. 3.  TNC vehicles are required to provide WAV service within a reasonable time by maintaining a fleet of affiliated wheelchair-accessible TNC vehicles, contracting with a permitted operator of wheelchair-accessible PFHT vehicles, or a combination thereof. It is a rebuttable presumption that any time beyond 30 minutes is unreasonable.
    4. 4.  Fare rates for WAVs may not exceed fare rates for comparable non-WAV TNC Vehicles, be reported to the City Administrator and are not subject to dynamic pricing.
    5. 5.  WAV services must comply with the City’s administrative rules and with the WAV Service Performance Guidelines, established by the PFHT Advisory Committee and the Portland Commission on Disability.
    6. 6.  Any permitted TNC must enter into any applicable agreement with the City to regularly provide anonymized data relevant to WAV service. Examples of relevant data may include, but not be limited to, the following:
      1. a.  Number, date, and time of fulfilled WAV trips;
      2. b.  WAV trip wait time;
      3. c.  Number, date, and time of WAV trips declined by the driver or the company;
      4. d.  WAV trip origin GPS, latitude and longitude; and
      5. e.  WAV trip destination GPS, latitude and longitude.
    7. 7.  The City Administrator may implement an accessible transportation fee and establish an Accessible Transportation Fund for the purpose of meeting the objectives established in administrative rule for accessible service.
      1. a.  The accessible transportation fee rate will be established by the PFHT Advisory Committee in consultation with the Portland Commission on Disability for the purpose of funding the Accessible Transportation Fund.
      2. b.  The Accessible Transportation Fund will be managed by the City Administrator for the purposes of providing an incentive for PFHT WAV service in keeping with WAV Service Performance Guidelines and mitigating the higher costs of providing WAV service compared to commensurate non-WAV service. A detailed report on the status and performance of the Accessible Transportation Fund and citywide WAV service provided by all permitted PFHT operators will be presented to the PFHT Advisory Committee annually.
  5. D.  Failure to comply with any provision in Section 16.40.290 is a Class B violation subject to penalties provided in Sections 16.40.930 through 16.40.950.

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