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Community Transport Simon Garwood, Community Links Officer (Aylesbury Vale North) Types of Community Transport: Voluntary Car Schemes Community Buses Dial-a-Ride Taxi Schemes Voluntary Car Schemes: General Car Schemes

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Community Transport

Simon Garwood, Community Links Officer (Aylesbury Vale North)

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  • Voluntary Car Schemes
  • Community Buses
  • Dial-a-Ride
  • Taxi Schemes

Types of Community Transport:

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  • General Car Schemes
  • Hospital Car Schemes
  • Doctors Car Schemes
  • Good Neighbour Schemes

Voluntary Car Schemes:

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  • Buses for Hire
  • Public Bus Routes
  • Door to Door Services

Community Buses:

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  • Shared Taxis
  • Bus routes
  • Taxi Tokens
  • Fair4all

Taxi Schemes:

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Community Transport Hub

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Community Transport: Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths Challenges Cheap to set up and run, Personal, Flexible and Adaptable, Can provide extra support e.g. shopping, hospital appointments etc. Not run by Professionals, dependant

  • n goodwill and volunteers, Need

advanced notice and booking. Vehicles may not be accessible.

Voluntary Car Schemes

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Community Transport: Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths Challenges No need to book, cheaper for clients – bus passes can be used, Timetables and routes can be published. Social experience of travelling with others. Less flexible – fixed times and routes. Expensive to set up and maintain.

Community Buses

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Community Transport: Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths Challenges Door to door service, bookable journeys, accessible vehicles, trained drivers, good reputation. Membership required – criteria for

  • users. Can be expensive to run in

rural areas. Vehicle maintenance costs.

Dial-a-Ride type schemes

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Community Transport: Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths Challenges Reliable, door to door, may be accessible vehicles available, cheaper than supplying buses on under used routes Expensive for longer journeys, User confidence (lack of), Training for drivers, Need to book in advance

Taxi schemes

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  • Set up – Finding the right person / group to drive the project

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  • Accessible vehicles and training for volunteers (informal vs formal)
  • Policies, insurance, legal issues, best practice, DBS checks
  • Recruiting reliable coordinators, more than 1 to ensure sustainability
  • Defining parameters – types of journeys, catchment area
  • Ensuring financial sustainability – drivers not compromised
  • Recruiting and retaining drivers – communicating regularly with

volunteers so they feel supported. Development and Sustainability Challenges: Voluntary Car Schemes:

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  • Funding (Set up and Depreciation) – capital costs and running costs
  • Cost of repairs and coping when bus is off the road
  • Marketing and promotion
  • Changes to routes
  • Maintaining pool of volunteer drivers (Driver training)
  • Policies, insurance, legal issues, best practice, DBS checks
  • No formal training / support for trustees and coordinators

Development and Sustainability Challenges: Community Buses:

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Questions?