Great Western Rail Customer & Communities Improvement Fund 2016-17 Days Out by Train in the West of England Final Project Report May 2017 Dr Miriam Ricci Senior Research Fellow Centre for Transport & Society Department of Geography and Environmental Management Faculty of Environment & Technology University of the West of England BRISTOL BS16 1QY E-mail:
[email protected] CONTENTS Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................ 2 Project objectives ................................................................................................................................... 3 Project delivery ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Monitoring & Evaluation approach ........................................................................................................ 6 Results: how the scheme was used and by whom ................................................................................. 7 Results: participants’ views on the journey experience ....................................................................... 13 Results: positive outcomes ................................................................................................................... 15 Additional qualitative feedback on transport barriers ......................................................................... 17 Conclusions ..........................................................................................................................................