A new £1 million initiative with support from the Department for Transport, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the CRC provides help for community transport organisations in rural areas.

 23rd November 2009

Together with Lincolnshire County Council we're launching a short film highlighting how transport schemes can be integrated and sustainable in rural areas.

 27th October 2009

Our new research report and case studies show the diverse ways accessibility planning is able to deliver a range of innovative ways to help improve access to a range of services for rural areas.

 6th October 2009

ATOC's new report "Connecting Communities" looks at the viability of re-opening rail links to towns that lost their rail services in the 1960s. Most are small towns that have grown and where a rail link could substantially reduce traffic on major roads.

 17th June 2009

Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, is visiting Cumbria with the Commission for Integrated Transport (CfIT) to find out more about the Rural Wheels initiative, a shared taxi scheme that provides subsidised travel for rural communities.CfIT will be launching a campaign supporting their report calling for Government to announce and fund a large-scale shared taxi project, ‘TaxiPlus’. "Rural bus provision has declined steadily over the past twenty years....

 12th June 2009

Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, is visiting Lincolnshire today to find out more about transport schemes working to tackle rural isolation.

 24th February 2009

Nicola Lloyd, our Director of Analysis, has written about what the future might hold for rural transport in the latest issue of the Social Research Association's e-bulletin.

 17th February 2009

We're launching the first five in a series of transport think-pieces to raise the profile of rural transport issues and place transport at the heart of the debate on climate change and our work on sustainable rural communities.

 14th September 2008

We welcome an examination of BSOG, particularly the suggestion that it should be more closely allied to climate change targets in relation to fuel efficiency and vehicle emissions. Nevertheless, we've warned about possible threats to rural bus services should the BSOG paid to operators be reduced. Only a relatively small number of services in rural areas operate commercially without local authority subsidy, often at low profit margins.

 16th June 2008

Malcolm Craig, one of our Senior Policy Advisers, has written an article for the latest MJ magazine. 'The importance of transport in helping to create sustainable rural communities' looks at how transport is key in helping create better, more sustainable rural communities.

 29th January 2008