Accessibility and Public Transport Research at UCL

Evaluation of Direct and Cross Sector Impacts of Accessible Public Transport in Rural Areas (ELIXIR)

Funding

Description

ELIXIR makes use of the bus service established by the APTRA project in 1999. The research is investigating how the existence of the accessible bus service facilitates health and social care provision in the area and how this could be developed in the future. Major issues we will investigate are:

cost of current transport to health and social care facilities
extent to which people are being excluded from these facilities as a result of the cost or difficulty of providing accessible transport
the cost of using the bus service for appropriate journeys
the impacts on health and social care resulting from any change in transport provision as a result of using the bus service

Cumbria County Council and Eden District Council provide officer support for the project.

Contact

Nick Tyler (supervisor)
Ian Brown (research fellow)

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