Southern Highlands Community Transport will begin lobbying the State Government to redirect funds to the region.

Travelling back from what the Highlands community transport co-ordinator Janice McNamara termed a "highly successful" summit involving 135 community transport organisations, the message was clearly sounded that more funding was needed to transport the elderly and disabled.

"Our work is focused on transporting the aged and disabled, so much of the program dealt with the changing structure of health providers and ambulance services," Mrs McNamara said.

Hosted by the State-based Community Transport Organisation (CTO), the Wollongong forum entitled 'Back to Basics' was an opportunity for community transport operators to learn from their industry siblings as well as raise concerns.

"We were able to look at more consultative measures like employing taxi operators or bus companies," Mrs McNamara said.

"Of greatest benefit to the Southern Highlands were rural issues and how different transport operators are dealing with them."

The greatest concern facing the Highlands transport provider is being listed as a metropolitan area while facing regional transport issues.

"At the moment we are part of South West Area Health which is mostly metropolitan (including Campbelltown and Liverpool), but the Highlands has very different problems compared to much of this zoning," Mrs McNamara said.

Pushing for regional recognition, Mrs McNamara said she hoped an even better aged and disabled transport service could be achieved with the appropriate funding.

With more than 20,000 passengers benefited from the Southern Highlands Community Transport last financial year and even more expected to make good use of the service in the future, Mrs McNamara said.