Introduction:
Arriva, which is owned by Deutsche Bahn, has been one of the UK’s biggest bus operants and play a great role in the country’s decontrol rail industry. According to HAYS (2015), Arriva is a leading pan-European public transport operator with around 54,500 employees and operations across 14 European countries. Having first entered the UK public transport market in 1980, Arriva has grown to provide key bus services across the UK and became the country 's second-biggest bus company in 1996. With more than 14 years of experience of running trains, Arriva operates five major contracts covering 22 percent of the UK market (Reuters, 2015). In addition, Arriva Transport Solutions Limited (ATSL) provides UK public sector organisations with
Arriva UK provides with long-standing experience across a diverse portfolio of services with 5,900 buses, 357 train sets, 45 Metro trains, 474 patient transport vehicles and help create jobs for 24,800 employees. Arriva has grown to become the third largest regional bus market provider. In London, Arriva operates over 20 percent of the capital’s services under contract with Transport for London. After starting the Arriva Trains Wales contract in 2003, the company went on to win the CrossCountry contract in 2007. When Arriva became part of Deutsche Bahn, four more routes were added to the Arriva Trains UK network in 2011, and thence, the company established the Arriva Transport Solutions as a specialist transport business within the group that helps public sector organisations provide excellent transport services more efficiently, and deliver better value for money. It is said that, transport services are at the heart of the UK economy - moving people to work, home and school, and goods to households and businesses, thus there are close connections among the economy, politics and transport industry. This assignment is aimed at analysing the impact of economic and political factors for UK Transport Industry as well as an organisation in the
In order to survive, Arriva needs to be associated with their markets, which enables them to predict and respond quickly to change including complex legislative requirements and increasingly high customer expectations. According to the incumbent chief executive of Arriva - David Martin (2011), Arriva sets the standards for quality and customer satisfaction in our markets with many of our businesses proudly reporting record breaking satisfaction levels. However, there are many reports has shown public pressures to this company such as hundreds of complaints about the ambulance service run by bus company Arriva and only 28 positive feedbacks from patients, who are customers of Arriva Transport Solutions in Greater Manchester in 2014 (Manchester Evening News, 2015). As a responding for these problems, this company seems not be very concerned about it, and they seem to ignore it because they think these concern still represent less than 0.5% of total journeys they undertake said by Dennis Hajdukiewicz, the firm’s head of Greater Manchester. Furthermore, taxation and congestion charge are also economic factors affecting Arriva’s business. In modern life, transportation is significant for most people and cars are important means of transport. Normally, people often travelling to work or school by car and many families own more than
Findings & Recommendations: As in the case of the O’Hara Transport company, it is not the city’s place to mind the personal interest of some over that of the public good.
The geographical map above shows the extent to which Virgin Trains operates throughout the country...
Transport is a political factor as it is controlled and affected by legislation. This will impact on the staff and opponents (travelling to the stadium) as the accessibility of transport will impact on travelling times – both positively (may avoid traffic on a train e.g.) and negatively (trains, buses etc. may be cancelled or delayed). The price of transportation will also affect the mode of transport that these groups of people may use. Similarly, price and accessibility of transport will affect the consumers also. The view that consumers hold on transport, therefore, is likely to impact on the business i.e. effort to travel, money to travel etc. as this will influence how often they will visit, what they will spend during their visit etc. According to (Mintel 2011,) the amount of people using train as a mode of transport is on the rise, mea...
My first key highlight of the ‘trusty and reliable’ service would have to be that the metro timetable is extremely un-reliable and outdated due to the metros un-weary maintenance service and their ‘caring’ service schedules i.e. in the middle of Christmas when sales are taken place. Their timetables placed at the ‘lavish’ metro stations are outdated and outlandish as the timetables don’t even represent the actual daily schedule of the metros and that the timetables don ‘t correspond with anything related
Andrew Simms, a policy director and head of the Climate Change Program for the New Economics Foundation in England, presents his argument about the impact SUV’s have on our roadways, and the air we breathe. “Would You Buy a Car That Looked like This? “. The title alone gives great insight on what the article is going to be about, (vehicles). “They clog the streets and litter the pages of weekend colour *supplements. Sport utility vehicles or SUV’s have become badges of middle class aspiration” (Simms 542). Simms opening statement not only gives his opinion on how SUV’s are the new trend, but he also paints a picture of what we see every day driving down our roadways. Simms also compares the tobacco industry’s gap between image and reality to that of SUV’s; stating that the cause and consequences of climate change resemble smoking and cancer. Simms comparison between SUV’s and cigarettes shows how dangerous he believes SUV’s are.
The 30 Year Plan for Greater Adelaide looks at making Adelaide into a more transit-focused city. This will be done to make the movement of people, goods and services more efficient. In the plan access to affordable and accessible public transport is seen as a critical issue for many people, in particular the elderly. The 30 Year Plan looks at improving the share of public transport by investing in improving the current modes of transport available to people. There will be new investment in roads and rail, an expansion to the tram network, a redesign of the bus network and more cycling & walking networks will be built to provide physical infrastructure.
The economical advantages are those that are most evident in our nation these days. Consumers want products, products need delivering, deliveries require logistics, and logistics cannot be performed without the proper road network. It is here that EU grants have helped, being instrumental in the upgrading of our road infrastructure, allowing them to cope with the increased flow of traffic create...
Pollins, Harold. "Transport Lines and Social Divisions" from London Aspects of Change: Edited by the Centre for Urban Studies. MacGibbon & Kee, London. 1964.
...ds to be embraced as an ally. The first kind of congestion may be thought of as the "Main Street" problem that results from a bad mix of through and local traffic, inadequate pedestrian facilities, poor parking provision and controls. It is further manifested in inefficient traffic signals and intersection layouts, lack of right turn pockets, inappropriate frontage land use zoning, insufficient road/rail transfer terminals, and intrusion of through traffic into local streets, poor signing and road marking and so on endlessly. The sense that transport is the apparent begetter of congestion it is indeed a tyrant. But we have seen that congestion occurs because we all want to get to the same place at the same time by the same mode. Congestion is the inevitable consequence and without full understanding of the process we blame transport ’’.
In 1996, Britain privatized its railways, contracting private companies to operate trains and maintain the rail lines. The argument for privatizing public transportation is that private companies pursue cost-minimizing strategies, which means that public transportation can benefit from the more efficient outcomes. This has proven to be the case in London, where the central government’s spending on the railway is mainly payments to franchised train-operating companies and Network Rail, which is a semi-public body. Overall, costs for the railways have been lowered in London “reducing operating costs by about 10 per cent” (White, 2009).
In today's changing business environment, information technology plays an incredibly important role in almost every aspect of the day to day life of almost every industry. The transportation industry is, of course, no different. From the transport of goods from manufacture, to warehousing, to retail, to end-user, the industry relies on information technology to get things done. The transportation of people is the exact same; incredibly important to get done yet impossible without the impact of information technology.
We all use vehicles for transportation. People usually go to their desired destination either by driving their own cars or traveling in public transportation. Actually, it might be tough to choose that which one is the best selection for people to travel. Many people choose one of them according to their comfort while traveling and both of them have advantages and disadvantages in different conditions. Public transportation and driving own car both shares differences and similarities in many aspects, such as facility, cost, and comfort as well as traffic jam and accident occurrence.
On the contrary, using private car is the same convenience of travelling as public transport. When people are in a hurry, they can suddenly go ev...
Economies thrive on the ability of mobility. Mobility allows people to go to work, attend school and travel far and wide by using some form of transportation. It allows people and ideas to mix more freely. Over time, mobility has taken many forms, from the backs of animals, to carriages and now the automobile. Since the invention of the automobile, we have been able to decrease transportation costs, travel vast distances and decrease travel times. We are able to facilitate relationships, foster trade between places and find better jobs. However, due to the inaccurate pricing of the roads, driving cars has turned from an innovation to pure frustration. The problem is traffic congestion; the increased usage of cars has created slower speeds and longer travel times due to greater demand for the road than the road has to offer. Roughly 3.4 million Americans endure extreme commutes, in which the trip to work and back eats up at least three hours of each day (Balaker, Staley 2006). Congestion slows life down by causing massive delays, eating away at valuable time and productivity. This has become a major issue because people are stuck in traffic when they do not need to be and conditions will only continue to get worse without government intervention. Many solutions have been offered and discussed but few have been implemented. This paper will serve to outline the economic theory behind traffic congestion, alternative policy options there are for dealing with traffic congestion and ultimately what the best strategy is to solve this problem. The solution I propose is to price the highways accurately to achieve the optimum number of vehicles on the road.
The need for good public transportation services is quite certainly apparent, particularly for developed cities. Without it, everyone would either need to locate themselves close to place of work, or everyone has to use some alternative means of private transport. For large cities, where there are millions of people that need to travel on daily basis, it is simply not possible for all of this movement to function well without public transportation (Johnson 2004, p. 4). For a developed city to have good public transportation services, this does not happen by accident. City and town planners need the appropriate tools to conduct the work of creating appropriate plans for public transport, land use