tep up the pressure, operators told
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A N S PO RT ope tato rs L-ssure on the Government the only way to increase ad building, the industry is told last week.
Delegate after delegate at LI, Institute of Civil Engiers' conference in London lied on industrial users to bby the Government fOr all ad building.
There were repeated pleas r the industry to produce ore evidence to show deiled economic benefits of net roads. That is the only ay to sway the Governent.
The civil engineers' retests were sparked off by insbury's distribution direct, David Quarmby, and ICI stribution adviser David ricknell, when they stressed c importance of a good imary route network. They ere supported by Freight ransport Association .anning director Richard Ur nen
Quarmby argued that conventional methods of working out the benefits of niajor highway improvements greatly underated the real economic gains to industry.
He argued that better roads achieve journey time saving, and in addition these unit' savings could result in fewer depots serving the same territory.
-The benefits from restructuring the distribution and depot network could exceed the
straight time savings by 35 to 50 per cent."
He also stressed that dual carriageways greatly improved efficiency because inure reliable schedule planning could be undertaken when drivers use them.
He concluded: "It is important that the business potential released in this and other industries by network improvement is better understood.FTA welcomes the call for transport operators' pressure, but it believes that it is also a convenient way of leaving the work to the transport lobby.
But it is already speaking to different companies and asking them to evaluate specific improvements in efficiency that new roads would bring. These results will then be presented to the Government, employer and trades union body, the National Ficonomic and Development Organisation.