Governments Ignore Productivity
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Pei-EITHER the present Government I I nor their predecessors appeared to have said much on the subject of productivity in transport, observed Mr. Parker. Professionally, members of the industry had to ask themselves: "How do we move more units, goods or people, with less effort? " Industrial concerns would help themselves if more of them employed properly trained traffic managers; local authorities would often be well advised to seek the help of transport bodies. Among factors affecting productivity was highway congestion that restricted work performed by commercial vehicles and the reduction, as compared with the days before the war, in the number of hours per day and days per week which traders kept their receiving and dispatch departments open. Providers of transport must consider the design of premises used as operating bases, geographical situation and accessibility, types and condition of vehicles, equipment provided, operational methods and doeumentatiOn, stalf training and management. Users should deal with methods of ordering transport, times of dispatch and acceptance, accessibility of pre mises, packing, labelling, material handling and documentation. Local. authorities, on their part, should examine parking arrangements, strength of bridges, one-way street systems, level crossings, pedestrian crossings and traffic peak arrangements. Mr. Addlesee thought transport a very expensive on-cost on the goods of as the country. Improvement of ?oath was not a matter of building superhighways, because the real delays occurred in urban surroundings which it was almost impossible to alter. One of the difficulties experienced with passenger transport was that trade tended to follow the buses..Re-routeing might only move congestion from one point and concentrate it in another. Mr. A. Darley emphasized the importance of greater flexibility being secured in the hours of dispatch departments.