This paper describes some of the outcomes of a research project – Accessible
Public Transport in Rural Areas (APTRA) in which the above issues were
explored. The APTRA project provided a fully accessible public bus service
in a remote rural area in north west England to investigate how the local
community would respond to such a service. After about a year of operation,
surveys were carried out amongst users of the APTRA bus service and a Community
Bus service operating in an area nearby. The paper describes the results
of the surveys including amongst other things age distribution, occupation,
journey purpose, previous mode of journey and reasons for using the services.
These outcomes should help inform the development of rural policy in relation
to social inclusion.
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