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A group of final year BSc (Hons) Air Transport and Logistics Management students were recently taken on a trip to Cranfield Univeristy in Bedfordshire to hear a stimulating talk by CEO of British Airways, Willie Walsh on the current and future performance of the troubled carrier. A lively question and answer session lasting more than an hour followed the talk with Willie Walsh particularly commending the quality of questions coming from the University of Huddersfield's final year students. After the formalities had finished, students took great pleasure in meeting Willie and taking photos with him.
The students in attendance thoroughly enjoyed the experience with one student making the following comment: "Thank you for the fantastic trip to Cranfield. It was a highly educational and interesting presentation, with the added in-coach entertainment services that made it even better!".
Our annual conference for A Level economics students was a great success, with students and teachers enjoying talks and discussions from lecturers Colin Bamford, Christine Corns, Nick Hubbard, Robert Mayer, David Leach and David Warnock-Smith on topics including how the recession has affected air transport, taxation and pollution, bus takeovers and developments in the railway industry.
A teacher who attended the conference wrote to us with the following comments: "The presentations were really useful for A2 students studying the OCR Transport unit. All the students enjoyed the presentations, they reinforced things they had heard in class and provided some useful updates and additional ideas. The campus was also very pleasant and the students felt welcome."
Watch this space for details of future events.
On Friday 16 October the Division of Transport and Logistics will host its annual Transport Economics Conference. The conference is aimed at all A level Economics students but will be of particular interest to students studying for the OCR A level in Economics, electing to study module F584 - Transport Economics .
The conference will focus on contemporary transport economics problems and issues and as such will provide an interesting perspective on the topics covered in that module. The conference may also be of interest to students with an interest in a career in Transport Management and Logistics.
More details can be obtained from Jayne Hemmingham and a flyer is available to download.
On June 29th 2009, Dr. David Warnock-Smith from the Division of Transport and Logistics was invited to deliver a presentation on the question of air policy reform in understudied regions of the world.
His latest paper entitled “Stages of air policy development and incoming tourism traffic in the Caribbean and the Middle-East” was conveyed to an expert audience of academics, local practitioners and public sector officials and, given the timeliness and relevance of the subject matter, the research findings stimulated a lively discussion among the delegates.
With a unique eco-political mix of state capitalism and well financed local carriers, recent evidence emanating from the Middle-East suggests a highly customised approach to air policy reform may reap greater national and regional benefits than a passive implementation of the generic neo-liberal framework pioneered in the United States and Europe.
Included below is an abstract of the research paper. For further information please contact David at d.warnock-smith@hud.ac.uk
It is generally agreed that government ownership and participation in national carriers and regulated air service agreements can lead to inefficiencies and abuses of market power. This can result in poor carrier performance and service levels, impeding further growth in tourism markets. This study aims to contrast this theory with recent case evidence in the Caribbean and the Middle-East. The former represents the mature exotic type beach holiday while the latter a fast developing religious, cultural and multi-product form of tourism. In both cases multi-step relationships exist between the development of air transport policy and the number of incoming visitors. The strength and significance of these interrelationships can be tested using two separate best-fit Structural Equation Models (SEMs) based on a panel data set of a selection of endogenous and exogenous variables for the period 2000-2007. It is found that, despite both regions’ continued government participation in national carriers, only in the Caribbean has this appeared to have resulted in the theoretical dampening effect on tourism output, whereas a reverse effect was found for the sample of Middle-Eastern states. Focussing on their formidable hub-and-spoke networks, state owned and vertically integrated Middle-Eastern carriers are still encouraged to offer competitive fare and service levels to capture 6th freedom traffic with the growing number of long-stay visitors being one of the primary benefactors of this.
Keywords: National carriers; Government control; Incoming tourism traffic
Reducing environmental impacts is a key issue in modern supply chains and plays an important part in teaching and research at the Division of Transport and Logistics. Two of Huddersfield’s experts in that field, Christine Corns and Robert Mayer, were invited to hold presentations at the “Colloque International: Le Developpement Durable en Transport et Logistique” (International Colloquium on Sustainable Development in Transport and Logistics) at the Institut Supérieur de la Logistique et du Transport in Montaigu, France in January 2009.
This was the first time the Colloquium had been organised. Students and academics from Spain, Poland, France and the UK gained an insight into how logistics and transport can be developed in a more sustainable way and how the different countries are addressing the issue. Representatives from the French transport and logistics industry also presented their views at the Colloquium.
Ten undergraduate students from the first year of courses in the Division of Transport and Logistics were able to attend the conference, and had the opportunity to engage with their counterparts from other European countries.
Transport and Logistics student Leon Doyle will represent the University at a Dragon's Den style competition. Read More >>
The Division of Transport and Logistics at the University of Huddersfield is proud to announce an outstanding and unique double achievement by two of its students. Each year, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport through its Logistics Research Network awards a prize for the best Undergraduate dissertation in the field of logistics. The award was first offered in 1995, and on each occasion (bar one year when an award was not made) the undergraduate award has been won by a student from the University of Huddersfield in competition with other UK Universities.
2008 is no exception with the award being won by Robert Dye, a student on BSc (Hons) Transport and Logistics Management. Robert, from South Yorkshire came to Huddersfield as a mature student with work experience and secured the DHL Tradeteam Bursary in the first year of his studies. He spent part of his second year on an Exchange programme at Hong Kong Polytechnic University before returning to take his placement with DHL Tradeteam. Upon graduation, Robert has decided to take an MSc course in Operations Management.
This year saw one of our students also win the DFT Freight Best Practice Award for best essay related to sustainable freight transport. Charlotte Laval, from France, submitted her essay whilst she was on her placement year with Wincanton plc. By coincidence, Charlotte also spent part of her second year on Exchange in Hong Kong.
Both awards were presented at a formal dinner as part of the CILT's Logistics Research Network annual conference in September, at which six academic papers were delivered by Huddersfield staff and postgraduate students. This "double first" reinforces the reputation of Transport and Logistics at Huddersfield as being one of the best providers in its field in the UK.