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British Transport Policetwelfth Report Of Session 2003 04reporttogether With Formal Minutesoral And Written Evidence
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Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215524263 Total Pages :80 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (242 download)
Book Synopsis The Opening of Heathrow Terminal 5 by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee
Download or read book The Opening of Heathrow Terminal 5 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BAA opened Heathrow's fifth terminal for business on 27 March, after six years of construction at a cost of £4.3bn, on time and within budget. Passengers had been promised a "calmer, smoother, simpler airport experience". Multiple problems, however, meant that on the first day of operation alone, 36,584 passengers were frustrated by the 'Heathrow hassle' that Terminal 5 (T5) had been designed to eliminate. Problems were experienced with the baggage system, car parking, security searches and aspects of the building itself. When the baggage system failed, luggage piled up to such an extent that it was transported by road to be sorted off-site. According to British Airways, 23,205 bags required manual sorting before being returned to their owners. The Committee finds that most of these problems were caused by one of two main factors: insufficient communication between owner and operator, and poor staff training and system testing. The Committee was pleased to find that steps were being taken at all levels to address the problems at the source of T5's problems, and BAA, British Airways and the union Unite are working together to make Terminal 5 a success.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215030974 Total Pages :252 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis Road Policing and Technology by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Download or read book Road Policing and Technology written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, traffic collisions killed 3,201 people with almost 29,000 seriously injured on British roads. Although the level of road crash fatalities and injuries has fallen over successive decades and Britain has one of the safest road environments in the world, the numbers still remain far too high and many of these casualties might have been avoided if there was a higher level of compliance with traffic law. The Committee's report examines the road casualty problem, focusing on the role of roads policing and the contribution which enforcement can make to casualty reduction. It considers how technology is influencing the policing and enforcement of particular offences, relating to speeding, drink and drug driving, driving whilst using a mobile phone and driving while impaired by fatigue. The report finds that, despite progress made by the Department for Transport against its 2010 casualty reduction targets, the Home Office has continued to deny traffic law enforcement issues the priority it requires and must explicitly adopt the targets as a key part of its future national policing plans. Investment and research into new technological equipment, such as roadside breath testing equipment and time-distance cameras, and a higher profile and more visible traffic enforcement effort would bring important casualty reductions. However, the efficiencies which technology can bring should not be seen as a opportunity to cut the number of roads police officers, as technology alone cannot carry out the multitude of functions undertaken by roads police officers.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215524034 Total Pages :418 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (24 download)
Book Synopsis Ending the Scandal of Complacency by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee
Download or read book Ending the Scandal of Complacency written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although road accident deaths have halved between 1958 and 2007 whilst the number of licensed motor vehicles and vehicle mileage covered increased by 400 per cent, the current rate of 3,000 deaths and 250,000 injuries is still an unacceptably high level. Road accidents are the largest single cause of death for people between the ages of 5 and 35 in Britain, and road accidents cost our economy some £18 billion each year. The number of deaths and injuries on roads far outweighs the deaths and injuries in other transport modes, and should be viewed as a major public health problem. The Government should establish a British Road Safety Survey to track overall casualty and safety trends, and review current methods for recording road-traffic injuries. The Committee recommends a systems approach to road safety: ensuring the vehicle, the road infrastructure, regulations and driver training are designed to similar safety and performance standards. Other recommendations include: more 20 mph speed limits; a more proactive approach to determining the safety benefits of new vehicle technologies; action on young drivers - who represent a disproportionate risk to road users - and vulnerable users: motorcyclists, elderly and child pedestrians and cyclists, horse riders; a higher priority given to enforcement of drink-drive and drug-drive offences. The Committee recommends the establishment of an independent Road Safety Commission with powers to work across the whole of government, ensuring that a high priority and adequate resources are given to road safety and that all government departments and agencies give active support. The Government should also establish a road accident investigation branch, like those in aviation, rail and marine.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215017512 Total Pages :48 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (175 download)
Book Synopsis British Transport Police,Twelfth Report of Session 2003-04,Report,Together with Formal Minutes,Oral and Written Evidence by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee
Download or read book British Transport Police,Twelfth Report of Session 2003-04,Report,Together with Formal Minutes,Oral and Written Evidence written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Transport Police (BTP) provides a specialised police force for the railway network across Britain, including the London Underground and some local light rail services. It is currently under the control of the Strategic Rail Authority, but this will change in July 2004 when a new British Transport Police Authority comes into being. The Committee's report examines the implications of this transition, and reviews the likely challenges for the new Authority as well as for the BTP itself. Issues discussed include: responsibilities and powers, governance and accountability, the funding system and resource management. Findings include that the railway system is a specialised environment with specific policing needs. Although the BTP has rightly been expected to demonstrate the same standards and expertise as a county police force, it has been left under funded and without sufficient resources. The Committee calls on the new Police Authority to provide leadership in order to secure the support the BTP deserves, and that the Government must also address these issues in its current review of the railway system. The Committee also commends the BTP's approach to providing information to its inquiry as exemplary.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215539861 Total Pages :300 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (398 download)
Book Synopsis The use of airspace by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Download or read book The use of airspace written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government's Future of Air Transport strategy aims to significantly increase UK airport capacity over the next two decades to accommodate the predicted growth in demand for air travel. New runways at Heathrow and Stansted airports are two of the key airport development proposals. If all the White Paper-supported airport development proposals came to fruition, current Government forecasts predict that the number of passengers passing through UK airports will increase from 241 million passengers a year in 2007 to 455 million passengers a year in 2030. This UK growth matches air traffic predictions for the whole continent. Eurocontrol, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, predicts that European air traffic will double by 2020. If rising demand for air travel is to be met effectively through additional airport capacity, a corresponding increase in airspace capacity must be realised. However, a country's airspace, the portion of atmosphere above its territory and territorial waters, controlled by that country is a finite resource. UK airspace, particularly in the South East of England, is already some of the busiest and most complex to manage in the world. This will almost certainly require improvements in the efficiency of the UK air traffic management system.The Committee's inquiry aims to look at how to meet these challenges. Its findings are aimed at those organisations responsible for airspace-related decisions in the UK: the CAA, NATS, and the Department for Transport. Passenger numbers and freight demand globally have declined in 2008 and in the first months of 2009. In its conclusions and recommendations the Committee covered the management of airspace, strategy, change and co-ordination in airspace management, environmental impacts of airspace changes and European developments.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215530523 Total Pages :76 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (35 download)
Book Synopsis The Effects of Adverse Weather Conditions on Transport by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Download or read book The Effects of Adverse Weather Conditions on Transport written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-05-29 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The snowfall on 1 and 2 February 2009, the heaviest since 1991, had a drastic impact on transport in London, which had no bus service for most of the morning of 2 February. Overground trains and London Underground services were also affected by delays and cancellations. Disruption to services also affected other areas of the country and continued for several days. This report looks at why public transport had been disrupted and whether this disruption was handled better or worse by different authorities, whether planning and preparation by local authorities and the Highways Agency was sufficient, and whether co-ordination between the bodies involved in responding to the heavy snow was adequate. Local authorities and agencies need to examine any weaknesses or potential improvements to emergency plans that may have emerged from the events on 1-2 February. Responses to heavy snow and its impact on traffic can be improved, but these are to do with planning and co-ordination, not increased spending: extra money, increased salt stocks or more snow ploughs are not the solution. The report finds that three key elements are required for a successful response to severe weather: the relationship between all the bodies involved in ensuring that the road network and public transport systems can operate; emergency recovery plans and winter maintenance plans should give a clear indication of what the priorities for salting and gritting should be and that these priorities have been agreed with public transport operators and the emergency services; the presence of good leadership. Co-ordination, prioritisation and visible leadership are vital to the success and speed of recovery following severe weather.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215529206 Total Pages :250 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (292 download)
Book Synopsis School Travel by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee
Download or read book School Travel written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a report out today (HCP 352 session 08/09 ISBN 9780215529206), the House of Commons Transport Select Committee tells education and transport ministers they must do far more to produce a modal shift away from cars towards public transport, dedicated school transport including ’Yellow Buses', walking and safer cycling schemes for British school children. The Transport Committee Chairman Louise Ellman MP says: "Young people deserve safe and affordable travel to education, leisure and employment. The journeys people make when young will influence their preferences and habits in adulthood." Also "Both the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department for Transport urgently need to identify how they are going to ensure children and young adults are not denied opportunities because public transport is either inadequate or too costly. In particular, travel should not present a barrier to accessing the new Diploma courses. For similar reasons much more should be done to identify children eligible for free school transport." The Committee recognise in their report that no single model will suit all situations and that car travel to school can be the most suitable method in some circumstances. However, they call on ministers to: provide high quality guidance and examples of best practice to illustrate when a dedicated school bus system is appropriate; top up the Education Maintenance Allowance for students from low income families and extend similar support for young people engaged in the new 14-19 diplomas; do more to encourage local authorities to identify pupils eligible for free school transport; consider the viability of a concessionary scheme offering reduced fares to young people; ensure that the Department for Transport, Department of Health and the Department for Children, Schools and Families work together so that national policy and practical implementation at the local level deliver both value for money and a greater number of joint initiatives that promote walking and cycling; help local authorities address the inherent tension between school choice and travel impact by raising awareness of sustainable school travel issues amongst parents and young people when they are selecting schools; in rural areas, review whether the maximum travel distance under which free transport may be provided allows for sufficient choice of schools; monitor the effectiveness of School Travel Plans. The Committee also calls on local authorities to consider new ways to fund and run innovative schemes that integrate transport, health and educational objectives for school travel.
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Book Synopsis The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue by : Stationery Office (Great Britain)
Download or read book The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue written by Stationery Office (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215065926 Total Pages :78 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (659 download)
Book Synopsis House of Commons - Home Affairs Committee: Drugs: New Psychoactive Substances and Prescription Drugs - HC 819 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee
Download or read book House of Commons - Home Affairs Committee: Drugs: New Psychoactive Substances and Prescription Drugs - HC 819 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are facing an epidemic of psychoactive substances in the UK with deaths increasing by 79% in the last year. New versions of these "legal highs" are being produced at the rate of at least one a week, yet it has taking the Government a year to produce five pages of guidance on the use of alternative legislation. This slow response to the crisis may have led to more deaths. Those who sell these killer substances need to be held responsible. New laws should be enacted to put the onus on them. Especially at this time of year, young people need to take care about what substances they consume so their health and lives are not put at risk. Quick turn around mobile testing units should be utilised at festivals in order in order to facilitate the removal of potentially harmful or illegal substances from the site immediately and more specific education on psychoactive substances should be given in school and colleges. There are also currently 1.5 million people addicted to prescription drugs in the UK. The abuse of these types of substances is taking place in the shadows and its extent is still unquantified. Local GPs need to report their suspicious and collate information to illuminate this problem. Medical Royal Colleges should establish a joint working group to examine whether local health teams are effectively communicating concerns around individuals visiting multiple practices to request specific drugs.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215015006 Total Pages :50 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis Departmental Annual Report 2003,Second Report of Session 2003-04,Report,Together with Formal Minutes,Oral and Written Evidence by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Download or read book Departmental Annual Report 2003,Second Report of Session 2003-04,Report,Together with Formal Minutes,Oral and Written Evidence written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by . This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department for Transport's first annual report was published in May 2003 (Cm. 5907, ISBN 0101590725) which detailed its key activities, performance against key targets and expenditure since its creation in May 2002. The Committee's findings include that although some concerns are expressed regarding the annual report and departmental expenditure, signs of progress are identified in new department's willingness to confront inherited problems and in delivering improvements in the transport system.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215055330 Total Pages :58 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (553 download)
Book Synopsis Land Transport Security - Scope for Further EU Involvement? by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Download or read book Land Transport Security - Scope for Further EU Involvement? written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last year the European Commission published a staff working document that was principally concerned with extending the Commission's involvement in transport security matters. Land transport security measures seek to prevent acts of unlawful interference against passengers, freight or transport infrastructure in the road and rail sectors. Unlawful interference, as referred to in the Commission's document, includes anything from terrorism to relatively minor crime against passengers and transport operators. The conflation of such wide-ranging security issues is not helpful and the Government is urged to ensure that any future EU land security transport proposals are more focussed. Overall, the current risk-based approach to land transport security in the UK are working well and security measures deployed across UK transport modes are proportionate to the current threats that any given sector is exposed to. However, some weaknesses in the UK's current land transport security regime were identified, including, for example, procedures for dealing with multi-modal transport hubs at which different threat levels are applied to different modes; ensuring that staff had a consistent level of training and an understanding of potential threats, risks and preventative measures; and the difficulty of maintaining a high level of both staff and public vigilance. The principal recommendation is that the Government should participate actively in EU discussions to ensure that any detailed proposals are focussed and appropriate to the UK. Parliament should be keep abreast of developments so that we can continue to contribute to the shaping of policy in this area
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215022646 Total Pages :74 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (226 download)
Book Synopsis The Departmental Annual Report 2004 by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee
Download or read book The Departmental Annual Report 2004 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Transport Committee and published by . This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HC 1280-i, session 2003-04. - The Department for Transport annual report 2004 was published as Cm. 6207 (ISBN 0101620721) in April 2004
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :021507582X Total Pages :40 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis HC 428 - Security on the Railway by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Download or read book HC 428 - Security on the Railway written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime on Britain's railways decreased year-on-year over the past decade. That trend shows the effectiveness of the specialist rail policing provided by the British Transport Police (BTP). The Committee were impressed by the BTP's commitment to tackling crime while minimising delays for the travelling public. Despite the welcome decline in overall crime, we identified areas where the BTP could improve its performance. The British Transport Police Authority (BTPA) is the body with responsibility for setting the BTP challenging but achievable targets to tackle crime on the railway. The BTPA must fulfil its remit and avoid any perception that it is too close to the people whom it should be holding to account. The Committee concluded that the BTP model of developing specialist policing skills and securing funding from transport providers might usefully be applied to other transport modes, such as aviation. Such an approach could minimise delays, maximise security and reduce the cost of policing to taxpayers. In the course of the inquiry, the Committee heard that vulnerable children and young people are often found in and around railway stations and were surprised to learn that the BTP currently has no targets in relation to child protection. The Department for Transport, the BTPA, the BTP and the charity sector should work together to tackle this emerging issue by examining the available data and reviewing current practice.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215524973 Total Pages :40 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (249 download)
Book Synopsis Reducing Passenger Rail Delays by Better Management of Incidents by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book Reducing Passenger Rail Delays by Better Management of Incidents written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 53rd report from the Committee of Public Accounts (HCP 655, session 2007-08, ISBN 9780215524973), and examines how the rail industry, led by the Department for Transport and Network Rail, manages incidents on the rail network, and how passengers are treated when delays occur. The Committee has set out a number of conclusions and recommendations, including: that Network Rail receives only half of its funding from the taxpayer but as a private sector company it is not directly accountable to Parliament, the Committee states the Department should strengthen the governance and accountability arrangements; that the Office of Rail Regulation should review and revise targets where appropriate to take account of changing conditions and challenges; the Committee states that the Department needs to play a more active role in bringing together the rail industry, emergency services and other stakeholders to improve incident management; and further that the Office of Rail Regulation should make sure mechanisms are in place so that the emergency services know who to contact during rail incidents; that passengers are not receiving the information they need during delays and are not always told how to claim compensation for delays. During the 2006-07 period over 1.2 billion passenger journeys were made in Great Britain on services that arrived on time almost nine times out of ten. The Department provided £3.4 billion to Network Rail and £1.7 billion to the train operating companies, whilst passengers paid some £5.1 billion in fares, with the NAO estimating that delays cost passengers £1 billion in terms of lost time. This report follows on from a National Audit Office report (HCP 308, session 2007-08, ISBN 9780102953053).
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215017383 Total Pages :56 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (173 download)
Book Synopsis Work of the Vehicle Operating Services Agency and the Vehicle Certification Agency,Tenth Report of Session 2003-04,Report,Together with Formal Minutes,Oral and Written Evidence by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Download or read book Work of the Vehicle Operating Services Agency and the Vehicle Certification Agency,Tenth Report of Session 2003-04,Report,Together with Formal Minutes,Oral and Written Evidence written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the Committee's rolling inquiry into the work of the executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies of the Department of Transport, this report focuses on the Vehicle Operating Services Agency (VOSA) and the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA). Conclusions reached by the Committee include: support for the approach taken by VOSA to protect the independence of the Traffic Commissioners; the need for an effective sanctions against infringement of regulations by foreign vehicle operators, including the introduction of a fixed penalty system as soon as possible; and the Committee's intention to keep under review the implementation and effectiveness of VOSA's electronic service delivery programme.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215017925 Total Pages :34 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (179 download)
Book Synopsis Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Trust Statement Report 2002-03 by : Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Trust Statement Report 2002-03 written by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by . This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conclusions and recommendations of this report are: DVLA has not been able to reduce vehicle excise duty evasion; it should look to maximise the effectiveness of its portfolio of enforcement activities; there is considerable scope to expand partnership arrangements with the police and local authorities; the Agency should be adequately funded to support any future expansion of congestion charging; there is scope to enhance the ways to pay the vehicle excise duty and plans to introduce electronic payment should be accelerated.
