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Title: DfT "Improving value for money from the railway" Study Post by: Lee on December 10, 2009, 11:47:51 This could be most interesting - http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/rail/strategyfinance/valueformoney & http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.9899
Title: Re: DfT "Improving value for money from the railway" Study Post by: bemmy on December 10, 2009, 18:09:28 Is it too much to hope that they'll find that the current train leasing system is terrible value for money, and recommend a better system.... and that the government will actually take heed of a report they've commissioned for a change?
Title: Re: DfT "Improving value for money from the railway" Study Post by: paul7575 on December 10, 2009, 19:08:54 They hoped the competition commision would find the rolling stock leasing market was a rip off. It backfired on them and went very quiet, cos the competition commision reckoned it was the DfT's franchising policy that caused all the problems...
Paul Title: Re: DfT "Improving value for money from the railway" Study Post by: Lee on December 11, 2009, 15:15:10 From Logistics Manager: (http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/12862/Welcome+for+railway+cost+study.html)
Quote from: Logistics Manager Welcome for railway cost study The Rail Freight Group has welcomed government plans to scrutinise the overall cost structure of all elements of the railway sector. An initial study is due by the end of March and will be followed by a detailed report. The Department for Transport says it will examine incentives to achieve greater efficiencies and identify any legal, operational and cultural barrier^ that might prevent increasing value for money for both freight and passengers. RFG chairman Tony Berkeley called on the government to ensure that the study was led by ^someone with a world-wide reputation for delivering projects on time, at the lowed possible cost and without any dilution of safety^. He said: ^We have much to learn from other countries and industries, in particular from the US, Canada, Switzerland and the Netherlands, both in reducing costs and administration, and in ensuring that maintenance, renewals, new works and other changes are achievable at the lowest cost and shortest timescale, so that there is funding and capacity available to give the long suffering customer a better deal.^ This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |