Paper published by 9th International Conference on Transport and Mobility for Elderly and Disabled People, Warsaw, 2 - 5 July 2001

Proceedings, vol. 1, pp 143 - 152

Users' Responses to the Implementation of an Innovative Accessible Bus Service in a Remote Rural Area

by Ian Brown and Nick Tyler

Abstract

To maintain a full and independent life in a remote rural area, people often become dependent on access to a private car or taxi. This dependence is due to the lack of accessible public transport, low income or becoming too old to drive a car.

This paper describes some of the outcomes of a research project – Accessible Public Transport in Rural Areas (APTRA) in which the above issues were explored. The APTRA project provided a fully accessible public bus service in a remote rural area in north west England to investigate how the local community would respond to such a service. After about a year of operation, surveys were carried out amongst users of the APTRA bus service and a Community Bus service operating in an area nearby. The paper describes the results of the surveys including amongst other things age distribution, occupation, journey purpose, previous mode of journey and reasons for using the services. These outcomes should help inform the development of rural policy in relation to social inclusion.

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