ABSTRACT
The term ‘rural transport’ appears to conjure up immediately an image based on remote rural areas of very low-density population, such as the Scottish Highlands or central Wales, in which low frequencies of service are found, ‘unconventional’ approaches such as the postbus are widely used, and high levels of financial support required. While such areas may characterize the extreme case, they are highly untypical. Concentration on such conditions as ‘rural’, and likewise those of the very large cities as ‘urban’, leads to a large and growing proportion of the population being ignored.
