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Mobility Management. A Clearer Future 2008 19 th September 2008. Exploring Opportunities Sean Gamage Sheffield Community Transport. Mobility Management. The Sheffield perspective Traditional community transport Minibuses and cars Registered local bus services Midibuses. Mobility
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Mobility Management A Clearer Future 200819th September 2008 Exploring Opportunities Sean GamageSheffield Community Transport
Mobility Management The Sheffield perspective Traditional community transport Minibuses and cars Registered local bus services Midibuses
Mobility Management The Sheffield perspective CT vehicles High floor – Renault, VW & Mercedes Low floor – Bluebird & Optare PCV vehicles High floor – Dennis & Mercedes Low floor – Bluebird & Optare
Mobility Management The Sheffield perspective Some experience of using ‘green’ fuel – biodiesel blend using recovered and refined cooking oil Used predominantly in PCV fleet
Mobility Management The Sheffield perspective Vision ‘Green fleet’ low carbon More inclusive and safer fleet low floor But…
Mobility Management The Sheffield perspective …there’s presently no off the shelf solution Green technologies are limited in scope and expensive Low floor minibus production is unstable
Mobility Management The Sheffield perspective Given this unsatisfactory situation, a consortium of transport and alternative energy experts were jointly appointed to consider alternative solutions.
Mobility Management The Sheffield perspective Considerations; High floor is ‘easiest’ Explore low weight components and materials
Mobility Management The Sheffield perspective Considerations; Potential social enterprise solutions Biomethane opportunities
Mobility Management The South Yorkshire perspective Mobility Management Objective 1 funded, led by Sheffield CT Community Transport in South Yorkshire social services health education other voluntary and private sector
Mobility Management The South Yorkshire perspective Mobility Management A countywide overview of available resource Use of IT for management of passenger bookings and vehicle scheduling Opportunities to join at marginal cost Regional and national opportunities
Mobility Management A Clearer Future 2008 Sean Gamage, Sheffield Community Transport 0114 285 9938, sean@sheffieldct.co.uk Sheffield Community Transportwww.sheffieldct.co.uk Gfleet Services Ltd.www.gfleet.co.uk RATC Ltd.www.ratransport.co.uk TAS Partnership Ltd. www.tas.uk.net