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Wednesday, 03 March 2021

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Go North East launches online lost property tool to reunite belongings with customers quickerGo North East has launched an innovative, online lost property system that makes it easier to unite customers with their lost belongings. The region’s largest bus company has a fleet of over 600 buses and receives around 10,000 lost property enquiries each year from customers who have misplaced their belongings. Due to the number of services and depots it is often difficult to co-ordinate lost items with their owner but thanks to the introduction of this technology its possible to reunite items quickly. The new system, provided by digital solutions company Not Lost, enables customers ...
• THE OPINION: Current issues facing the bus industrySince the onset of Covid-19 one year ago, sharp variations in performance can be seen. As shown in the Department for Transport’s regularly updated table of trends by mode, ridership fell to a very low level – around 11% of previous levels in April 2020 – but then rose to a high point around 55% to 60% in September and October, as restrictions were eased and schools returned, before falling to about 25% in January 2021 under the current lockdown. In all periods it has been substantially above trends for rail, but below car vehicular traffic.  Service levels varied much...