Title

Improving public transport to meet community needs: A Warrnambool case-study

Document Type

Research Paper

Publication Date

2004

Subject Area

Location - Rural

Abstract

Bus Association Victoria has begun a process of seeking to understand how public transport service affects social exclusion and personal wellbeing in a regional community. The aim of the present study is first step along this path as it aims to explore travel patterns of disadvantaged people and to identify the transport improvements that will reduce their disadvantage, using Warrnambool as a case study, focussing on the role of public transport. Transport disadvantaged groups comprise young people, seniors, persons with a disability, people on low incomes, rurally isolated and Indigenous people. [Country: Australia]