Fast facts

CTST’s aim is to be the ‘First Choice in Community Transport’. We provide transport to help people live independently within the community.

We are the largest individual provider of community transport in the country.
We provide transport for people with a disability.
We provide transportation for the over 65s for non-emergency medical and social outings.
We currently have a fleet of 83 vehicles, including 11 wheelchair accessible vehicles.
We drive on average 3 500 000 kilometres each year.
We service 28 council areas.
We engage more than 350 volunteers donating more than 125 000 hours valued at over $3.7 million annually.
We are currently registering 320 new consumers each month.
We work with over 100 community service providers.
We aim to deliver in excess of 150 000 trips in the next financial year.
Over 7000 individuals have been assisted by CTST in the last 12 months.
CTST is a not-for-profit organisation with DGR Status.

About our industry

Tasmanian’s are more reliant on motor vehicles than other Australians.
In 2011, one in six Tasmanians were aged 65+; in 2020 there will be one in five aged 65+ years, and in 2030 it is projected that one in four Tasmanians will be aged 65 or more.
The majority of older Tasmanians aged 65+ years (73%) lived in private dwellings that were owned or being purchased in 2011 and remain in their own home as they age.
In 2012 older Tasmanians identified health and well-being; access to facilities and services; social connections, family and friendships; transport; housing and home maintenance as the most important issues as they age.
For Tasmanians aged 75 years and over: 27% had undertaken voluntary work; 21% had cared for someone either aged or with a disability; and 23% had provided unpaid assistance to someone outside the household.
44% of Tasmanians aged 65–74 years had undertaken voluntary work; 30% had cared for someone either aged or with a disability; and 46% had provided unpaid assistance to someone outside the household.