Links
Keeping abreast of current information, resources and evidence-based practice is critical in today’s ever-increasingly complex environment. There is a continual need to not reinvent the wheel and spending time developing resources that may already exist.
The following links will be of use to you in very practical ways.
Queensland
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- Social Impact Measurement Network Australia
- Griffith University – The Development of a Generic Scale to Measure the Social impacts of Events
- Cancer Council Qld – operates some transport services for people in cancer treatment in select parts of Qld
- Leukemia Foundation – offers transport assistance whilst in treatment in select parts of Qld
- Kidney Support Network – operates some transport services for renal patients in select parts of Qld
- Community Centres across Qld – these centres often are the ones to distribute Emergency Relief (at times known as neighbourhood centres)
- Community Door
- Isolated Children’s Parents Association Qld
- Self Help Qld
Queensland Government Programs and Schemes
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- Dept of Communities, Disability & Community Services, Out & About – web based information service
- Dept Transport’s – Journey Planner for Regional Qld
- Translink’s – Journey Planner for SE corner of Qld
- Queensland Government Concessions
- Qld Road Conditions Website
- Qld Department of Transport – Operator Accreditation
- Qld Department of Transport – Information Bulletins for Driver Authorisation (note on this screen latest update box which notes which bulletin has been updated. These are updated regularly, so check you have the most current version)
- Qld Public Transport Concessions
- Qld Rail Concessions schemes
- Qld Rail Pensioner Travel entitlements
- Qld Department of Transport – Travelling with mobility devices
- Qld Health’s – Patient Travel Subsidy Scheme
- Qld Health Authorised Transport – (QHAT) – assistance with non-urgent travel to any Qld Health facility but no information available on Department’s website – tends to be kept secret – contact TDSA for more information
- General Practitioner authorised travel to any medical appointment – hospital or GP – if authorised this transport will be provided by Qld Ambulance Service (unless in some regions QAS sub-contracts some of this work to community transport operators)
- Disability Parking Permit Scheme (national)
- Taxi Subsidy Scheme Application Form Qld
- Travel Companion Scheme
- Person with Vision Impairment Travel Pass
- Translink Access Card – for those who can’t swipe their go card
- School transport assistance scheme
- Transport concessions for teritary students
- Seniors Card – valid nationally
- HACC funded Community Transport – find via use of appropriate region’s service directories on left side of screen
Complaints about taxi, bus, rail or ferry operators in your local area
- Taxi hotline (will also take complaints about limousine operators too) – Phone 1800 183 673x or email taxi@tmr.qld.gov.au or website http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/Travel-and-transport/Taxis/Taxi-hotline.aspx
- Translink – for any bus or ferry service in SE corner of Qld – phone 131230 or via online form on website – http://translink.com.au/site-information/contact-us-and-help
- Q Rail – via online form at http://www.queenslandrail.com.au/ContactUs/Pages/ContactUs.aspx
- Dept Transport Qld – to complain about charter bus operator, school bus operator, courtesy bus operator, community transport operator, taxi, limousine etc – http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/About-us/Contact-us/Compliments-and-complaints.aspx
Federal Government Programs and Schemes
- Department Veterans’ Affairs – Transport arrangements
- TPI Veterans Travel Pass
- Veterans Home Care – includes transport assistance
- Centrelink – Mobility Allowance
Local Council funded transport options
- Brisbane City Council – Council Cabs
- Brisbanc City Council – Personalised Public Transport
- Sunshine Coast Regional Council – numerous transport schemes on 1 website
- Sunshine Coast Council – Council Cabs
- Logan City Council – Council Cabs
- Gold Coast Council – Council Cabs
- Ipswich Council Cab Program
- Townsville Council – Pensioner transport subsidy scheme
Queensland – Industry Associations
- Qld School Bus Alliance
- Qld Bus Industry Council
- Taxi Council Qld
- Qld Community Transport Industry Association
- Limosene Association Qld
Australia
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- Social Research in Transport Studies, Victoria
- Health Consumers of Rural and Remote Australia
- National Rural Health Alliance
- NSW Department of Family and Community Services
- Department of Health & Ageing – YourHealth site
- Australian Association of Community Transport Conference, August 2012
International
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