The Federal Government’s work to coordinate human services transportation began decades before the creation of the CCAM in 2004 by Executive Order 13330. The timeline below contains a brief summary of the Federal Government and the CCAM’s efforts to coordinate human services transportation.

1986: The Departments of Transportation (DOT) and Health and Human Services (HHS) formed the Joint DOT/HHS Coordinating Council on Human Service Transportation to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of specialized and human services transportation by promoting coordination at the Federal, State, and local levels.

1986–2003: The council met regularly and launched initiatives, such as work groups, to identify barriers to transportation coordination. The Departments of Education (ED) and Labor (DOL) began to attend council work group meetings because of the opportunity to coordinate their programs that could fund transportation.

2003: The council initiated the ten-year “United We Ride” campaign, through which it organized several activities including awarding grants to support coordinated planning and mobility management, issuing policy statements, and supporting technical assistance efforts.

2004: President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13330 to improve the coordination of human service transportation for people with disabilities, older adults, and individuals of low income. The Executive Order established the CCAM and its membership of the leaders of 11 Federal agencies.

2004–2006: The CCAM issued an action plan in 2004 to guide its initial activities and, as part of the action plan, issued the CCAM’s 2005 Report to the President. The report outlined goals and detailed action items in six areas: education and outreach, consolidated access, regulatory relief, coordinated planning, cost allocation, and useful practices. The CCAM established staff-level interagency work groups to implement the goals and action items and made significant progress. As a result of the work groups, the CCAM released the CCAM Vehicle Resource Sharing Policy Statement and the CCAM Coordinated Human Services Transportation Planning Policy Statement.

2006–2009: The CCAM continued to meet regularly.

2009–2015: The CCAM did not officially meet, but it continued to make progress on removing barriers to transportation coordination. The CCAM published a Strategic Plan to guide its efforts from 2011 to 2013.  Additionally, HHS, DOL, DOT, and Veterans Affairs (VA) coordinated to award more than $64 million in Veterans Transportation and Community Living Initiative Grant (VTCLI) funding to support one-call/one-click transportation resource centers.

2015–2020: In 2015, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act created several statutory requirements for the CCAM. The Council led several subsequent activities, such as convening Federal work groups and State and local focus groups, to guide the CCAM’s strategic direction. The CCAM developed and published several key new resources, including the CCAM Cost-Sharing Policy Statement, the CCAM Program Inventory, and the CCAM Federal Fund Braiding Guide. The Council gathered for an official CCAM Meeting and adopted the CCAM 2019–2022 Strategic Plan: Mobility for All in 2019. In 2020, the Council submitted the CCAM Report to the President, which identifies existing challenges and barriers to improving access to transportation for CCAM’s targeted populations.