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| Environmental and Social Report |
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As a transport operator, the environmental and social impact of our business in the communities we serve is a factor we take very seriously. Since 2001 the Go-Ahead Group has published an annual environmental report.
We believe that our bus services are an economical, reliable and less stressful way to commute for those who have a choice, but which importantly also ease the daily lives of those who have no access to a car.
While providing those services however, we recognise the need to act in a socially and environmentally responsible way.
Since 2005, in addition to the group’s overview report, individual reports for the group’s operating companies have also been produced.
We have now published our 2009 Environmental and Social Report.
The 2008 Environmental and Social Report, 2007 Environmental and Social Report, 2006 Metrobus Report and 2005 Metrobus Report are also available to download.
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| Transport Facts and Figures |
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Low floor buses are increasing with 29% of the national fleet low floor in 2002/2003, rising to 39% in 2003/2004. The bus industry’s target is 50% by 2010.
DfT 2004
Pollution from buses and coaches is falling as a result of high levels of investment in new vehicles and tighter emission standards.
CPT 2003
Current EU regulations are twice as strict on emissions of CO, HC, NOx, PM as EU standards in 1993.
CPT 2003
The average age of the British bus and coach was 8.4 years at the end of 2001, down from 9.9 years at the end of 1994.
CPT 2003
Buses, coaches and trains in Britain are 7 times safer than cars in terms of fatalities per passenger kilometres.
CPT 2003
On average, a bus carries the same number of people as 30 cars in one-tenth of the road space. (Average car occupancy is 1.5 persons)
DETR UK Road Statistics
At any one time, 6% of the people travelling on Britain's roads are in a bus or coach, but the buses and coaches represent less than 1% of the vehicles on the road.
Transport Statistics Great Britain, 2005 edition, DfT
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