This Landor Links Live webinar: ‘Future of Demand Responsive Transport’ will be chaired by SYSTRA’s Bus and Ticketing Projects Director Cathryn Jones alongside an expert panel, including SYSTRA Principal Consultant Richard Jeremy.

Digital Demand Responsive Transport services have been trialled across the UK in recent years, supported by trial funding from the national governments. However, as the trial funding ends, many local transport authorities (especially rural ones) have indicated the likely end of these services, as the subsidy cost per passenger head is much higher than supported bus services, and councils in the UK face funding shortfalls.

The panellists will discuss whether there is a ‘second-generation’ digital demand responsive transport, which provides reliable services but uses existing infrastructure, such as taxi-sharing, NHS non-emergency transport, community transport and current DRT services where well-used, connected with apps and innovative ticketing and complementing bus and rail, and whether this can provide a quality solution and reduce costs?

Chair: Cathryn Jones, Associate Director, SYSTRA

Speakers include:

• Alice Missler, Demand Responsive/ Community Transport Team Leader, Hertfordshire County Council

• Louise Currie, Chief Executive Officer, Lydney Dial A Ride

• Kiron Chatterjee, Professor of Travel Behaviour, Centre for Transport & Society, University of the West of England

• Richard Jeremy, Principal Consultant, SYSTRA