CommunityTransportDG

CommunityTransportDG is a single point of contact to make Community Transport Operators (CTO) a key delivery partner in innovative school, ASN student, employability and non-emergency healthcare transport solutions.

It supports CTO operations (established and new organisations) by identifying economies of scale, sharing good practice, facilitating pooling of resources and supporting resilient delivery and represents the sector externally as a united voice, bidding for additional funding for CTOs to deliver better transport outcomes for our region.

By doing this, we hope to deliver:

• Consistent delivery across the region of Local Outcomes Improvement Plan, Regional Transport Strategy, Regional Economic Strategy and Local Place Plan transport outcomes. Social isolation is reduced and rural inequity diminished.
• Local bus networks amplified or optimised by the creation of localised, flexible, coordinated Community Transport delivery models.
• Reduced cash costs to the NHS for non-emergency healthcare transport, and better outcomes for patients.
• Reduced cash costs to D&G Council for statutory school, ASN and service route transport and better outcomes for students and passengers.
• Increased numbers of volunteers taking part in CTO operations, improving their own mental health and wellbeing and providing excellent value solutions to the regional transport challenges.
• Increased employability pathways within the CTOs, based on holistic models that offer work experience and job opportunities as well as training.
• Increased people in work due to coordinated Transport to Work schemes.

For more information, contact us on ct@tsdg.org.uk