Transport Planning Events

When: 11 February 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Where: Zoom Meeting
Speaker: Roger French OBE DL MA FCILT

Everybody wants to see public transport better “integrated” but what is the current state of play between the two biggest modes of travel - bus and train - and how much more can realistically be achieved? Roger French will set out examples of best practice in joint ticketing as well as timetable coordination from across Britain to see what lessons can be learnt and where other schemes could be introduced to encourage more passengers.

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Competencies:

• PAS1.2 Modes, Modal Choice and Transport Integration

When: 20 February 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Where: The National Robotarium, Heriot-Watt University, Boundary Road North, Third Gait, Edinburgh  EH14 4AS
Speaker: Lisa Farrell, Heriot-Watt University

The UK’s centre for artificial intelligence, located on Heriot-Watt University’s Edinburgh campus, creates innovative solutions to global challenges, working directly with industry to test and develop robotic, AI and automated technologies and rapidly move pioneering research from lab to market. The centre fosters the teaching and development of the next generation of roboticists, producing highly-skilled graduates who are trained to conduct world-leading research with a market focus, and developing programmes to equip the current and future workforce with robotics, data and programming skills. It also delivers incubation and business acceleration support for start-up technology companies, providing them with access to labs, office space, equipment, and engineering expertise to develop their ideas, attract inward investment, and shape the future of robotics.
 
The National Robotarium is a Data-Driven Innovation hub, funded in partnership with The University of Edinburgh as part of the £1.5bn Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal, which is supported with £300m funding from the UK Government and £300m funding from the Scottish Government.


Lisa Farrell and colleagues will explain how robotic, AI and automated technologies can be applied to sectors including not only logistics but also agriculture and social care where they can address labour shortages. 

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Note: If you are not a current Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, please be aware our membership team may be in touch with you using your email address provided regards membership opportunities. If you do not wish to be contacted please email and let us know at regions@ciltuk.org.uk

Regards

Communities Team

When: 24 February 2025, 18:00 - 19:00 
Where: Zoom Meeting
Speaker: Greig MacKay, Director for Scotland, Bus Users UK

They work to make public transport inclusive and accessible, promote high standards of transport planning and delivery, raise awareness of the effects of transport poverty on loneliness, isolation and social exclusion and resolve passenger complaints and improve services. 

They are a charity registered in England and Wales (1178677) and in Scotland (SC049144), an approved Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Body for bus and coach passengers, the nominated body for dealing with complaints under the Passenger Rights Regulation, a member of the Sustainable Transport Alliance and a Company Limited by Guarantee (04635458)

Greig will tell us more about their Scottish activities, including that during September’s 2024 Catch the Bus Month  local councils, regional transport partnerships and local groups all played a key role : Perth and Kinross Council got involved with their offer of free bus travel on the first Saturday of each month; a bus group in Prestonpans decorated a bus stop, raising awareness of local bus services; Lothian Buses held a hugely successful Doors Open Day; Sestrans highlighted CTBM on their RTPI screens; Bus Users met with SPT’s board members at Buchanan Bus Station to celebrate the campaign; and Xplore Dundee ran a number of successful events.

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Competency:
PAS2.3 Access and Inclusion through Transport.


Kind regards

Communities Team

When: 4 March 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Where: Zoom Meeting
Speaker: Daniel Wright, Freelance Transport Writer

It's the large items that usually come to mind when we think of transport heritage, but the likes of Flying Scotsman and the Forth Bridge enjoy plenty of protection. Not so the smaller things such as signs, clocks and weighing machines that give character to railway journeys but can be at risk of removal at the whim of a management set on modernisation. Taking examples from throughout Britain, transport writer and campaigner Daniel Wright makes a plea to save these items whose familiarity he believes attract people to train travel and for which the first need may be to compile a list of what's there. Daniel is a transport planner whose first job after graduating from Aston University was at the newly-created Institute of Logistics and Transport in London, where he worked during 1999 as a Policies Assistant.

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Competency:
TP1.1 Transport Infrastructure and Network Resilience

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Communities Team

When: 27 March 2025, 09:00 - 13:00
Where: Reading College, Kings Road, Reading, RG1 4HJ
Speaker: Various Speakers

Logistics and transport businesses have long bemoaned the lack of basic skills relevant to their sectors among school leavers. School leavers in turn appear to have little appreciation of the varied and exciting roles that are available to them in the wonderful world of logistics. Their views (and those of their training providers and gatekeepers such as parents and career advisers!) are often limited to Hi-Viz jackets, sheds and trucks.  This is YOUR opportunity to shape the training given to potential employees to meet the needs of YOUR business and industry.

The Thames Valley Group are calling for delegates to join the joint Workforce Development Partnership (WDP) workshop with Thames Valley Chambers of Commerce, colleges, training providers, career advisers, the Berkshire Careers Hub and fellow professional logistics and transport leaders in Reading College – free parking is available to those who register to attend.

After the last WDP in November 2024, Banbury and Bicester College is already looking to provide a new Haulage and Logistics pathway incorporating exciting curriculums including logistics, warehousing, supply chain and transport management encompassing road, rail, sea, and air with a cross-cutting theme of digital literacy and skills, so your voice really does matter.

We recognise that you need to be the employer of choice, not last resort if we are to attract the talent you need.  We must ‘sell’ our profession to young potential employees, dispel the Hi-Viz and Yorkie Bar myth and excite them about our wonderful sector, and the progress they can make in it (it should be noted that 2 in 3 logistics managers do not have a degree).  Following the WDP we are therefore running a walk-around showcase event for college students, their lecturers and career advisors supported by the Berkshire Careers Hub. We need you to join us and engage with this young talent for a couple of hours after the WDP.  We would love you to come and briefly explain to students how much more than sheds and trucks there is to logistics in a format that is easy and ‘least effort’ to you – a two or three slide rolling presentation, a piece of interesting kit or just one of your own young employees who can inspire students to look at our profession – and raise your profile amongst a talented and potential future workforce.

Experts from sustainable supply chains, telemetrics. transport planning and Defence logistics are already signed up to the Showcase – come and ‘sell’ your specialisation to our future talent, their educators, training providers and careers advisers and prove there is more to life than Hi-Viz!

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When: 27 March 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Where: Panmure House, 4 Lochend Close, Edinburgh EH8 8BL 
Speakers: Ed Sweeney, Professor of Logistics & Supply Chain Management at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University
Adam Dixon, Adam Smith Professor of Sustainable Capitalism at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University 

Home of Adam Smith, the ‘Father of Economics’’ between 1778 and 1790, seventeenth-century townhouse Panmure House 
off Edinburgh’s Canongate was rescued from dereliction by Heriot-Watt University in 2007, and now houses the University’s centre for social and economic debate and research. Professors Ed Sweeney and Adam Dixon will tell us how their stewardship of Smith’s home keeps them true to the spirit that the great man was also the Father of Logistics. The event will comprise a lecture, followed by a Q&A session, and a tour of the house. There will also be networking opportunities before and after the formal proceedings. 

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Competencies:
SC1.1 Supply Chain Networks, Design and Optimisation.

When: 24 April 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Where: Zoom

Speaker: Ashley Rimmer,Transport & Compliance Manager,Transam Trucking Ltd

Transam Trucking Ltd are one of the worlds leading entertainment transport companies and to underline this they were trusted with managing the American heavy metal band Metallica’s European tour in 2024. 

But what is involved with organising a logistic operation like this? How do Transam Trucking Ltd translate the band’s vision of a successful tour, satisfying avid fans over many different nations to a plan that is executed with military precision? 

Ashley Rimmer FCILT, Transport & Compliance Manager for Transam Trucking Ltd gives us a fascinating insight into the skills, expertise, challenges and opportunities of this highly specialised logistics sector. Answering along the way

• What unique features does it has over international general road cargo operations? 

• What skills and capabilities are important to succeed in the sector?  

Exploring how the tour was delivered and looking into the future to see where Transam is utilising innovation and new technology to drive greater performance?

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When: 8 July 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Where: Zoom Meeting
Speaker: Ed Wills FCILT, Managing Director, Brighton & Hove Buses

Organised horse bus routes first began running in Brighton and Hove around the middle of the 19^th Century, particularly once the London railway arrived in 1841. It was in 1935 that Tilling formed a new separate company the Brighton, Hove & District Omnibus Company Ltd (BH&D) as an autonomous subsidiary of the parent group.  Buses were branded as Brighton, Hove & District and continued to run alongside the Corporation’s trams and the motor buses run by Southdown.

Ed will provide an update on the company’s plans for improving services for customers and the continued innovation that has seen the city achieve the highest bus usage outside of London in the UK. He will provide an update on the company’s plans and how it requires a whole combination of different activities to come together to ensure customers continue to receive the best possible experience.

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Competencies:

• PAS1.1 Passenger Movement Principles
• PAS1.2 Modes, Modal Choice and Transport Integration
• LE2.1 Customer Service and Relationship Management