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.

from : BlogPosts  17th June 2009

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.

from : BlogPosts  23rd November 2009

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.

from : BlogPosts  29th January 2008

Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, is visiting Lincolnshire on a two-day trip looking at integrated transport networks and community transport.

from : Events  27th January 2009

Stuart Burgess, our chair and the Government's Rural Advocate, will be visiting Cumbria to investigate integrated transport.

from : Events  19th May 2009

Supported by ACoRP, The Future of Community Rail will examine best practice for getting the most out of Community Rail development in terms of community engagement, partnership working, scheme promotion and looking at alternative methods of funding.

from : Events  22nd August 2008

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....

from : News  12th June 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.

from : News  14th September 2008

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.

from : News  6th October 2009

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.

from : News  16th June 2008