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Introduction
This work category provides for door to door subsidised taxi or specialist transport provider trips for people with disabilities, including administration, maintenance and operation of facilities and equipment associated with the Total Mobility scheme.
This definition applies to the 2012-15 NLTP.
Examples of qualifying activities
Examples of qualifying activities include, but may not be limited to:
- registration and management of total mobility agencies, services, users and allocation of discounts to eligible users
- establishment and management of data based systems used to assist the operation of the total mobility scheme
- management and assessment of users in each region
- the operation of dial-a-ride schemes where:
- the users of a service are people whose disabilities are such that they would qualify for assistance under the Total Mobility scheme
- the service has been put out for tender under the NZTA’s Procurement Manual
Other potential activities that are not in the above list of examples should be discussed with the Transport Agency for eligibility.
Exclusions
This work category excludes:
- Total Mobility ticketing systems. The operations and maintenance of any public transport related technology based systems are provided under Work category 524: Public transport information, supply and maintenance.
Funding assistance rate (FAR)
The usual funding assistance rate is dependent on whether the Approved Organisation is signed up to the scheme and the phase being implemented, and is:
- 60% for Approved Organisations signed up to and implementing Phase 2
- 50% for Approved Organisations signed up to and implementing Phase 1
- 40% for Approved Organisations not signed up to either Phase 1 or 2 of the scheme
