Experience: Social Exclusion
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following are examples of projects we have undertaken:
- Developed business plans for schemes in deprived communities in the West Midlands to provide a range of services to JobCentre users (e.g. cycle loans, travel concessions, and personalised travel plans) to enable them to travel to job interviews and new jobs.
- Undertook research amongst employed people and jobseekers for Cornwall County Council to examine the actual and perceived travel barriers to employment opportunities.
- Updated and enhanced the Rural Accessibility System model originally developed by TTR to assist Dorset County Council in evaluating the accessibility from rural areas of various services by public transport.
- Working for DfT as part of a team developing approaches for assessing accessibility to education, work, food and health, in response to the Social Exclusion Unit report on transport. TTR is also responsible for the development of case studies in Nottinghamshire, Plymouth and Devon.
- Co-ordinated a European consortium to produce a working methodology for local and regional authorities to assess the relationship between transport and polices to combat social exclusion in their areas in the MATISSE project.
- Assisting Leicestershire and Rutland County Councils to manage the implementation of their Rural Bus Challenge Cross County project, which has secured £1.6m funding from the Government. The project aims to relieve social exclusion within the rural areas of the two Counties and generate locally developed transport solutions.
- Assessed perceptions of the security of using public transport amongst a range of socially excluded and high risk population sectors in Liverpool.
- Undertook a review of transport needs for the deprived Alt Valley Partnership area of Merseyside. The results of the work were used to prepare recommendations for improving public transport provision in the area.
- Completed the Public Consultation for the Centro/West Midlands Passenger ‘Transport Authority 20-Year Public Transport Strategy. Eleven focus groups were held involving a variety of people drawn from all over the West Midlands, including socially excluded groups such as disabled people, hospital out-patients, women, and groups representing ethnic minorities.
- Carried out research into the role played by transport in the decision-making processes of young people who may be considering further education in Torbay.
