• to promote and encourage safe, integrated, efficient and economic transport facilities and services for Tyne and Wear and its surrounding area through the development of partnerships between other local authorities,
  transport operators, public service providers, local communities and Nexus.

Its main priorities in moving towards this objective are:

• to halt the decline in public transport use in the area
• to increase public transport use in Tyne and Wear
• to market public transport as a key ingredient in the reduction of social exclusion, the regeneration of the economy, the improvement of the environment and the reduction of the ill effects of traffic congestion on health and the economy
• to support mobility for all regardless of levels of income and car ownership