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Concessionary Travel – Bus Operator Reimbursement Arrangements March 2015

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Why 2 documents?

• Transport Act 2000 Arrangements covers

reimbursement for the statutory scheme.

• Transport Act 1985 Scheme covers reimbursement for

Merseytravel’s discretionary elements and defines Merseytravel’s discretionary elements and defines what the enhancements are.

• Reimbursement is calculated in the same way in both

schemes

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Statutory scheme

Covers reimbursement for all English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) Older and Disabled pass holder journeys boarding in Merseyside during the following times:

• Mon-Fri 09.30 to 23.00
• All day Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays

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Discretionary scheme

Covers reimbursement for the Merseytravel enhancements:

• Merseytravel ENCTS Older pass holder journeys boarding in

Merseyside before 06.31

• Merseytravel ENCTS Disabled pass holder journeys boarding in

Merseyside before 09.30

• Merseytravel ENCTS Older and Disabled pass holder journeys

boarding in Merseyside after 23.00

• Merseytravel 60+ pass holder journeys Mon-Fri before 06.31

and after 09.30, all day Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays

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Data requirements

The following are required for input to the DfT Calculator:

• Concessionary passenger numbers
• Average fare forgone – from single, daily and weekly tickets
• % change in fares since 2005/6
• Average journey length
• Average journey length
• Average vehicle speed
• Average route length
• Average bus occupancy
• Commercial journey %
• Average commercial fare

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Concessionary passenger numbers

Current smart commercial concessionary journey numbers are significantly lower than survey numbers (10-50% lower depending

• n operator)

This is due to:

• Cards not being read on bus
• Significant numbers of manual recording of passes
• Data transfer issues

We are working with operators to resolve these issues and reduce the gap

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