Bus Back Better | Funding mechanisms

This support package will help LTAs:

• increase their awareness and understanding on the range of bus service and infrastructure funding types available

• improve their approach to successful bid writing for individual funding streams through written guidance provided in the Technical Note with advice on accessing multiple funding streams outlined

• broaden their understanding of the range of potential bus infrastructure improvement proposals they could pursue through scheme funding applications

The funding mechanisms support package will provide a technical note covering:

• different funding mechanisms that have been utilised for different bus systems, to understand more about the respective suitability for different types of funding mechanisms for LTAs and operators

• case studies of successful bids for various funding mechanisms, including bids to government funding streams as well as funding acquired via private initiatives