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Britain's Coaches Backing Britain’s Coaches tours to Europe large scale events from the UK A coach strategy sports/concerts 3% for Britain 6% Introduction international tourist home to school 16% trips into the UK oaches provide a vital, comfortable, and 11% environmentally sustainable travel option, and help school trips 12% Cthose who might otherwise struggle to travel. They transport huge numbers of passengers around the UK – pre-pandemic British people made an estimated 500 million passenger journeys by coach in the UK each year.1 Of the 6.3 million people who took a coach trip in 2019, 40% were 55 years old or older.2 rail & aviation replacement They also transport around 600,000 children to school each day. 3% This demonstrates the importance of this convenient and accessible transport for vunerable people form of transport in helping people access holidays, education and 1% combatting social exclusion. Coach also plays an important role in supporting the UK’s tourism industry; in 2019 there were 23 million domestic tourism % 22 corporate travel visits to tourist attractions and locations by coach, which 3% contributed £14 billion to the UK economy.3 Coach provides a multitude of services to ensure people can get to where they need to go, including rail replacement during engineering private hire 20% scheduled services works, aviation support, vulnerable group transport, such as elderly, 2% children and people with disabilities and trips to sporting events. % of coach fleet revenue data provided by the CPT Coach Operator Survey 2020 However, only home to school and rail/aviation replacement services have continued to operate – with associated payment - at any meaningful level during the pandemic. distribution of 500 coach operators million by fleet size There are circa 2,500 coach 21.7% 15-35 vehicles coach journeys operators in the UK, 81% of which were made by are family or individually owned, Britsh people often with multiple generations in 2019 23 36-60 vehicles million 8.4% working for the business and deeply embedded in their coach trips communities. were made to 15 vehicles 66.3% 3.6% 61+ vehicles tourist attractions or less Together these businesses in 2019 provide 42,000 jobs across the country. 6million.3 adults took a 600,000 coach trip children data provided by the CPT Coach Operator Survey 2020 in 2019 were taken to 1 CPT analysis of 2019 school by coach DfT and National Travel Survey data in 2019 2 CPT Coach Operators Survey, 2020 3 CPT Research 2020 A day in the Operator A Operator B life of a In just one day, operator A carried out the following services: coach National Express journeys Home to school transport with the capacity to carry Manages 43 dierent home to school/college routes operator 473lines of work 77 4,671 passengers utilising 31 vehicles and drivers every term-time To give a flavour of what coach delivered by morning and afternoon operators deliver across Britain contract journeys with Carries 5,600 passengers per day to or from school & college, every day, here are a few the capacity to carry equating to over a million student journeys each year 142 140 5,545 passengers examples of a typical day in 2019 vehicles Home to school services covered nearly 600,000km in 2019 for some of our coach operators. coaches covering tours Saved 65 times the carbon monoxide emissions compared to 14 (with three additional associated transfers) students travelling by car (based on two students per car) coaches on excursions 4 coaches63 on assorted31 private school day trips hire bookings Tourism Carried some 38,000 passengers on local sightseeing tours. Tours start every 20 minutes in the high season with a 113 trips on sports shuttle services hop-on-hop-o service along the route enabling passengers to trips to & from with the capacity to carry visit a wide range of attractions. school with 16 1,274 passengers the capacity 346 coach trips for cruises that arrived at the local port, to carry carrying nearly 14,000 people into the local area who spent 8,000 children driver hours around £140,000 during their visit. worked Ran 200 tours around the UK and Ireland carrying just 1,806 over 4,700 passengers. Tours last an average of five days and four nights, contributing considerable income to the domestic tourist economy. A door-to-door pick up service on these tours assists elderly passengers that would otherwise feel unable to 23,772 miles short of travelling travel and helps to tackle social isolation. Operator also oers miles travelled 1,200 around the earth a reunion trip which allows passengers to meet up with the friends they made on previous holidays. or 5 coaches from London to New York & 2 coaches from London to Sydney Other Carried out 63 trips, carrying over 3,000 students, for educational purposes ranging from museum trips to European city and ski holidays. 50 private hires a week, including rail replacement services. Without a coach operator ready to fill these replacements, there may be upwards of 100 passengers stranded at a station at any one time. Private hire work includes taking the local football team and sta to all their away matches, carrying out an important community service and taking cars o the coach travel is road, reducing congestion and emissions. times 6safer than car use4 Coach drivers undertake rigorous professional training and coaches are equipped with multiple technologies which further increase their safety, including CCTV, 4 R66 roll over standard to ensure structural integrity and DfT (September 2019) Reported road advanced emergency braking. casualties in Great Britain: 2018 annual report, fatality rates data per billion passenger miles by road user type Covid-19 pandemic The pandemic has hit the coach industry hard; 80% of his document sets out the value of coach travel operators have seen their turnover reduce by over 50%, and to Britain both today and in a sustainable future. almost 20% of operators have seen theirs reduce by over 90%, TIt identifies the actions that need to be taken, in a devastating impact on an industry that is normally fundamentally particular by central and local government, to enable healthy and profitable. Despite the many support packages that have the industry to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic been made available to other sectors, the coach industry has been and get back to delivering a service that truly meets largely overlooked; the furlough scheme has been welcome, however the needs of individuals, the economy, society, many operators have struggled to access the support packages made and the environment in the 21st century. available to the leisure and hospitality industry and, despite being an integral part of the UK’s leisure and tourism industry, only around 20% of coach operators have been successful in accessing the bespoke support offered to that sector5 (which is largely left to the discretion of local authorities). With the right support the coach industry can recover so it can continue to play a vital role in delivering the country’s environmental, economic, and social goals. The Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) UK represents The future the operators of bus and coach services across the UK, as well The need to address air quality and the climate emergency has as vehicle manufacturers and risen to the forefront of public and political consciousness. Given the other suppliers to the industry. Government’s legally-binding commitment to net zero emissions by CPT has more than one thousand 2050 and the poor air quality in many towns and cities it is essential we enterprises in membership, modify our travel patterns across the country to significantly improve ranging from major PLCs, through our air quality and reduce our carbon footprint. to municipally-owned companies one Thankfully, one solution lies ready and waiting in the form of and family businesses with fewer coach the coach; the latest Euro VI diesel coaches emit less nitrogen than ten vehicles. can keep up to oxides per vehicle than the latest diesel cars, and just one 50 cars coach-load of people can keep up to 50 cars off the roads, with average o the road carbon dioxide emissions per passenger per journey being around 1.5 times lower than rail, 5 times lower than air and 6 times lower than car travel. greenhouse gas emissions per passenger kilometre (g C0 e/pass km) 6 domestic UK aeroplane 271 average diesel car 1 person 208.9 short-haul aeroplane 172.6 5 average EV car 1 person 57.3 DfT member survey 2020 6 National Rail 44.2 Zemo Partnership test data and DBEIS Greenhouse gas reporting: conversion factors 2020 coach 33.8 gov.uk/government/publications/ greenhouse-gas-reporting-conversion- factors-2020 t is absolutely crucial for the UK’s long-term environmental targets and Government working with industry on a national Executive economic recovery that the importance of coach travel is recognised. 4 strategy for sustainable long-distance road summary I But the sector has been hit hard by Covid-19. Operators are doing transport. This should include: all they can to stay afloat during the pandemic, but with bookings Coach travel is an inclusive, not expected to return to pre-pandemic levels for several months, Requirements to ensure that clean air strategies are fair and sustainable, environmentally friendly perhaps not until 2022 at the earliest, and little financial support from • reasonable for coaches and support modal shift from the travel option that reduces air Government, the industry is struggling. It is vital that Government private car to sustainable forms of mass transport; in pollution, carbon emissions and recognises the huge contribution that coach travel makes to the UK and particular that all Clean Air/Low Emission Zones include cars road congestion.
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