The Contribution of Public Transport to the National Climate Change Strategy

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The Contribution of Public Transport to the
National Climate Change Strategy

• Terri VogtGroup Head of CSRFirstGroup plc

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About FirstGroup

• The leading transport operator in the UK and
  North America
• Turnover around 5,000 million
• Employees 137,000

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About FirstGroup

• UK
• The UKs largest bus operator running more than 1
  in 5 of local bus services 9,000 buses carrying
  3 million people per day
• The UKs largest rail operator running one
  quarter of the rail passengers network carrying
  over 275 million passengers per year.

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About FirstGroup

• North America
• Largest provider of school buses in North
  America-around 60,000 yellow school buses
  carrying 4 million students per day.
• One of the largest providers of transit
  management and contracting services
• The largest private sector provider of vehicle
  maintenance and ancillary support services
• Own Greyhound providing scheduled passenger
  services to approximately 3,100 destinations
  throughout US and Canada.

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Public Transport Contribution to the National
Climate Change Strategy
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Policy Context

• 42 reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020
• Emissions from transport continue to rise
• Thrust of current strategy to decarbonise grid
  followed by large scale move to electrification
  of cars

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Role of Public Transport

• Technology change will take time to realise
• Modal shift to public transport can deliver
  immediate reductions
• Added benefit of tackling congestion

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Role of Public Transport

• 5.5 billion journeys are made by bus and coach
  each year in the UK.
• 2.7 million rail journeys per day
• Average emissions per passenger journey are
  lower for bus and rail travel

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Role of Bus Travel

• If car drivers switched to bus or coach for just
  1 journey in 25
• 1 billion less car journeys
• Save 2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide
• www.greener-journeys.com

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How Can This be Achieved?

• Setting local authority targets to encourage
  modal shift-priority,park and ride,
  infrastructure
• Measures to support the affordability of bus
  travel
• Integration into land use policies
• Roll out of school bus travel

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Where has it been achieved?

• 56 increase in bus patronage in York
• Strong partnership
• Clear targets
• Priority measures
• Investment in buses

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Braehead Bullet

• New city express route established between
  Kirkintilloch/Lenzie and Glasgow city centre.
• Innovative marketing campaign used to advertise
  new route.
• Bus usage was turned round with week on week
  growth of 66.
• Received Best Bus Service Award

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First ScotRail

• Transport Operator of the Year
• Reliability at 94
• Customer satisfaction 90
• Delays down 50
• 20 patronage growth since start of franchise

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Behavioural Change

• 18 of motorists find driving stressful
• 3 out of 4 adults would change their behaviour to
  help climate change
• The public rank public transport second after
  recycling as a measure they would realistically
  take to help the environment

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Role of Rail Travel

• On-going passenger growth
• Industry must grow to meet demand
• Electrification
• High Speed Rail

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How do we reduce emissions from the sector?
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Challenges

• Carbon dioxide emission reduction legislation on
  cars but not on buses or trains
• EU EURO engine legislation has led to
  significantly poorer fuel efficiency
• How can we measure the benefits of our
  contribution through modal shift?

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The Fuel Efficiency Challenge
Trend of decreasing efficiency which we have to
counter and then improve on
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Climate Change Strategy
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Implementing Our Strategy

• What we can do with existing vehicles
• Driver training
• Additives
• Operational efficiencies
• Engineering adjustments
• Improving diagnostic ability
• Biofuels???

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Case StudyDriver Advice Systems

• The variance in fuel efficiency of different bus
  drivers averages 15 can be as high as 40
• Introduced
• Dash board traffic light system
• Employee engagement and incentives
• Results
• 5.6 improvement in MPG.
• 13.6 reduction in collisions.
• 90 reduction in passenger incidents.
• 50 reduction in customer complaints.

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Delivering Long-Term Carbon Reductions

• Vehicle design
• Hybrids
• Hydrogen

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Future Technology

• Hybrids
• 5 hybrids being trialled in partnership with
  Transport for London and manufacturers
• Currently seeing around 20 benefits
• Reliability improving
• 30 fuel efficiency improvement target

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Future Technology

• Hydrogen
• Ran a 3 year partnership with Transport for
  London which finished 2 years ago.
• Good reliability and range
• draw back costs and infrastructure requirements.

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Future Challenges

• Behavioural change
• Thinking mobility not mode
• Link to lifecycle analysis
• Rethink vehicle design
• Introduction of new technology

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