Sectors

Passenger Transport

Following an intensive review by the Department for Transport (DfT), the UK Government set out its policy towards the bus sector in a report entitled Putting Passengers First.

It concluded that the "key ingredient of success has been effective partnership working" and "a shared willingness to invest in the long-term future of the [sic] sector."  However, one of the major issues in the bus and coach industry is the relatively low level of government subsidy compared with other European countries.

The turnover of companies supplying public transport service by land, air and sea reached an estimated £14.38bn in the year ending March 2006 - a 7.1% increase on the previous year. [Source:  Keynote 2007]

For more information on the Passenger Transport sector please search the Go Skills website http://www.goskills.org/

Passenger Strategy:

  1. To support and contribute to 9 of the key priorities identified by the Sector Skills Council (GoSkills) to support and grow the Passenger Transport Sector.
  • Increase management and leadership skills
  • Develop essential skills- literacy and numeracy together with wider employability skills
  • Develop trainers and assessors to meet sector needs
  • Support retention of staff
  • Improve poor public image and low professional esteem
  • Improve customer service skills
  • Support recognition for current skills and licensing requirements
  • Address ageing workforce
  • Support greater engagement in the range of skills training through the EU driver training directive

Business Development Team

  • Ged Latham is our Passenger Transport Development Manager and has a wide EU LOGISTICS LEGISLATIVE KNOWLEDGE:

He has identified the implications of current and future EU legislative requirements that affect UK and ijimportraitnternationally operating road hauliers including the Working Time Directive, Corporate Manslaughter, Digital Tachograph, Drivers Hours and the Driver CPC.

Ged has developed practical strategic applications and solutions to enable operating companies both prepare for and implement necessary changes. He is an advisor to the Merseytravel network group, a member of the Merseyside Freight Quality Partnership and the lead consultant on Logistics for The Warrington Business School.  He is a founding member of the Logistics College North West (LCNW).  He holds a Masters degree from Liverpool John Moores University.

  • Rob Adams is the project leader for the Bus and Coach Sector at The Warrington Business School:  Rob has been involved with developing a range of Driver CPC courses that have been accredited by JAUPT and are now successfully delivered on a weekly basic.  Working very closely with the Sector Skills Council (GoSkills) he understands the development needs within the bus and coach industry, Rob delivers on a range of courses that are being used to develop and enhance both bus and coach employees with outstanding results. Rob holds the A1 and IV qualifications and is qualified PCV driving instructor.

All the staff working in the Logistics Academy are specialists and have extensive skills in their sector and cover all types of training in Passenger and Freight from Drivers CPC to National CPC.