Rural transport delivery

Louise Cornell

Senior Project Development Officer

Norfolk County Council

Rural Transport

• Changing financial context

• Changing policy context

• Shared transport options

• Supporting the CT sector

• Enabling change

Changing financial context

• Savings in local bus– £0.5m savings 2011/12– £1m savings 2012/13

• Improvements budget a now £2m, down from >£50m in 2010/11

• Changes in adult social care that will impact upon travel demand

Changing policy context

• LTP3 – Connecting Norfolk now adopted• Accessibility identified as a strategic priority• ‘Re-shape’ public transport in Norfolk• Hub and spoke network

– Core bus routes between market towns – commercial– Council funded routes to build on these and provide

feeder services from villages (75% subsidy is rural)

• Feeder services increasingly demand responsive transport

Shared transport

• Public transport is changing– Local scheduled bus– Flexibus – Dial-a-ride– Car sharing– Car schemes– Car clubs

• Moving towards a menu approach, more targeted at need

Supporting the CT sector

• Sustainability - reducing overheads & enabling contract work

• Awareness & image – marketing & volunteer campaign

• Make it easier for people to book and use• Targeting of Council subsidies and grants - to

include research into the social return on investment

• Commissioning on behalf of other organisations such as the NHS

Enabling change

• Funding opportunities– CT grant from DfT– Local Sustainable Transport Fund

• CT steering group

• Norfolk wide CT forum

• Norfolk Community Transport Association

Any Questions

Contact:

Louise.cornell@norfolk.gov.uk

01603 223266