Policy issues for the community transport sector

Bill Freeman and James Coe

Policy Issues for the Community Transport Sector

Policy Agenda for Community Transport in Scotland

National Transport Strategy for Scotland

CTA’s New Mission

How we’re going to achieve that mission.

National Transport Strategy for Scotland

Improved journey times and connections between our cities and towns and our global markets to tackle congestion and lack of integration and connections in transport

Reduced emissions to tackle climate change, air quality, health improvement

Improved quality, accessibility and affordability of transport, to give choice of public transport, better quality services and value for money, or alternative to car

New vision, mission and strategic priorities to 2020

We are for, and about,accessible and inclusive transport

Our vision is of a world where people can shape and create their own accessible and inclusive transport solutions

New vision, mission and strategic priorities to 2020

Our mission is to realise our visionthrough three strategic priorities

Championing accessible

and inclusive transport

Supporting our members

and raising standards

Connecting people and

ideas

If you want the future to be…

Local

Connected

Accessible and inclusiveResilient

…lets talk about community transport

Local

…lets talk about community transport

• Community transport well placed to support greater local devolution in transport

• Bus Services Bill - once in a generation opportunity to create better local public transport networks that:

• meet a greater range of needs

• encourage more people to see public transport as the first and best choice for getting around

• Strengthening powers of local leaders so they can shape their local transport market for the benefit of passengers

• Give people a greater say over their local public transport networks - see bus routes as ‘community assets’

• Community Transport should be part of a genuinely integrated network.

Resilient

…lets talk about community transport

• Resilient to pressures that can lead to withdrawal of commercial and subsidised services

• Arguably the point at which service providers would walk away comes much later

• Resilience can be attributed to:

− High levels of volunteer involvement

− Typically demand-responsive

− Smaller vehicles

− Diverse range of funds supporting activity

− No distribution of profits

Resilient

…lets talk about community transport

• Around 250 charitable and community organisations are running scheduled services along fixed routes on a not-for-profit basis

• Examples:

• Ilfracombe – running services in response to request from job centre to help people get to and from jobs in the hospitality industry

• Glasgow – response to service withdrawal to help housing scheme tenants stay connected to local amenities

…lets talk about community transport

• Greater collaboration and sharing of data, vehicles, capacity

• Total-transport – looking beyond public transport to joint-commissioning of a range of services.]

• Community transport is not just an alternative to conventional public transport, it can improve access to it.

Connected

Accessible and inclusive

…lets talk about community transport

• Accessible and inclusive transport helps make everything else in life accessible and inclusive too

• Not just for older people and disabled people

• Make sure innovations to support independence don’t foster isolation

• Transport can be fun as well as functional

How We’re Going to do That

Work to Support Inclusive and Accessible Transport

Social Value of Community Transport

National Transport Strategy

UK Policy Work

Inclusive and Accessible Transport

Recognition

Health

Total Transport

Measuring Impact

Economic Benefits of CT

Minibus Fund Round Two

New Forms of Funding

Growth

Innovation

Bus Services Bill

Partnerships and Pro Social Innovation

Devolution

Infrastructure Commission for

Wales

Contributed to ‘Bus and

Community Transport Services’

Social Value of Community Transport

KPMG can Transport Innovation be Pro-Social

Strengthening relationships with partners to promote the value of community transport

Women in Transport and sharing knowledge

How much is saved with modest investment in Community Transport

National Transport Strategy

Environmental Benefits of Community Transport.

Community involvement in transport design and consultation

Scotland’s Accessible Travel Framework

Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015

Call To Action

Commission is set to open in early 2017

Collecting feedback and information from members on what they want the future of transport in Scotland to look like

Email James at [email protected]