Rural Mobility Fund phase 1 evaluation: final report

The Rural Mobility Fund (RMF) provides funding to local transport authorities (LTAs) to trial demand responsive transport (DRT) in rural and suburban areas of England.

DRT is a flexible service that provides shared transport to users who can specify their desired location and time of pick-up and drop-off. The RMF pilot schemes all offer passengers a mobile booking app and use technology to schedule and route vehicles to optimise service efficiency.

The report documents findings from phase 1 of the RMF programme evaluation. It presents lessons learnt from process evaluation and uses monitoring data to describe operation and performance of the pilot schemes to date.