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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
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.
Arriva company was founded in 1938 by Cowie family in Sunderland as a (second-hand motorcycle shop).The company started to become bigger during the 90th, especially in 1997 by making its first deal in mainland Europe. Nowadays, Arriva is controlled by Deutsche Bahn and they became one of the leaders on transport market in Europe. Moreover, the company has around 54,500 employees who are serving in 14 various countries in Europe. They transport around 2 billion passenger through year. Arriva offers to their customers numerous ways to transport by having a lot of services for example: inter-urban commuter coaches, trams and light rail, water buses, local buses, train and airport transport services and other things. Arriva sales has
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Arriva is one of the UK’s largest bus operators and a major player in the country’s deregulated rail industry, it is part of the Arriva group, which is owned by Deutsche Bahn. 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 14per cent of the UK market. In addition, Arriva Transport Solutions Limited (ATSL) provides UK public sector organisations with the specialist and
When cars were just entering fashion and today's market leaders were obtaining momentum, a lot of cities relied on electric streetcar systems for public transport. These trams had actually dominated metropolitan transport because the late nineteenth century, and their abundance in heavily populated centers positioned a problem for the fledgling automotive market. Put simply, if everyone had the ability to take a trolley to work or the supermarket, there would be no demand for individual vehicles or buses.
To begin with, Argos has multichannel retailer which are, retail stores, online stores and mobile app stores. It has different teams, a development team, an e commerce tea and an internet focused team. The technology development is the internet sales where someone can check and reserve and the range of products is big.
This case describes company’s facilities, vehicle pickups and return processes, pricing, promotional strategies. Furthermore, It also describes a number of significant changes that the company has made in the last year, including a move to allow rentals for as little as an hour that was designed to position easycar as a competitor to local taxis, buses, trains and even car ownership. The case also explores several legal challenges the firm faced, including a ruling that threatened one of the core elements of its business model.
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...
Stradling, S., Carreno, M., Rye, T., & Noble, A. (2007). Passenger perceptions and the ideal urban bus journey experience. Transport Policy, 14(4), 283-292. doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2007.02.003
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...
Governments and councils alike need a massive focus on promoting the use of public transport. As most public stand, they prefer the use of private travel as it provides flexibility and efficiency which is not granted in public transport. In order to achieve more efficient and effective planning and investment for public transport, there needs to be better support ad direction from central government.
In this essay, I will discuss the topic of urban public transportation and how it relates to the Church and Wellesley BIA. The nature of transportation in Toronto is a highly complex topic. As discussed in the article Transportation: The Bottleneck of Regional Competitiveness in Toronto, there are many concerns with transportation in regards to international transport, roads, highways, rails, bike lanes, buses etc. (Keil, Roger, Young, 2008). These transportation variables all have a greater economic, health, and environmental impact. The article goes on to describe that mobility in Toronto suffers because its management is uncoordinated, and there is a gap in regional interaction (Keil, Roger, Young 2008). The scope of this essay will be to
Public Transportation –Inaccurate arrival times of buses, trams, trains etc., may cause inconvenience to hundreds of commuters.
Rail transport in Europe has been in decline in recent decades, especially in freight. Rail’s share in the freight land transport market dropped from 32.6 % in 1970 (EU-15) to just 16.7 % in 2006 in the EU-27. In absolute terms, based on the amount of goods carried and distances transported, rail freight transport activity (EU-15) declined between 1970 and 2006 by about 1 %. However, freight transport by road more than tripled in the same period.