Transit paratransit booking prompts must ensure policy checks happen before ride-time suggestions. What ordering should the prompt enforce?
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Short Explanation
Eligibility before booking—same order a dispatcher uses. Make the prompt restate the paratransit rules first, then suggest a ride time. Jumping to a time slot or inventing waivers is how policy gets skipped.
Full Explanation
Transit paratransit booking prompts must ensure policy checks happen before ride-time suggestions so ineligible bookings are not socially locked in. The prompt should require the model to restate eligibility criteria—ADA paratransit rules, service area, advance-notice windows, attendant policies—before proposing a ride time, enforcing dispatcher-like order and reducing wasted capacity. That eligibility-before-time ordering is the core requirement. Proposing any ride time first and only optionally glancing at eligibility inverts policy order and anchors the conversation on an unauthorized slot. Skipping eligibility to optimize shortest-travel slogans ignores statutory access rules that define who may book. Asking the model to invent eligibility waivers when criteria fail fabricates authority the system does not have and can create compliance and equity issues. Exam caveat: restating criteria is a prompting control; production systems should still verify eligibility in authoritative booking systems of record, not trust the LLM alone. Operational check: test transcripts for criteria-before-time ordering, block booking tool calls until eligibility checks pass, audit waiver language for unauthorized promises, and measure denial handling quality after deployment with paratransit operations staff.