How will clean air zones impact business? Answers at Fleet Live 2019

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Fleets will get an overview of the latest plans for clean air zones (CAZs) across the UK with a presentation and discussion session by UK100 at Fleet Live 2019.

Jason Torrance, clean air cities director at UK100, will update fleets about a Fleet News and UK100 initiative involving UK business and local authority policymakers that seeks to secure national and local support for CAZ delivery. Fleet News and UK100 are running clean air zone roundtables.

Torrance said it will be vital to gain consensus from all stakeholders on the challenges and opportunities, together with commitments to action from local authorities, business and transport operators.

UK100 is a network of highly ambitious local government leaders committed to clean air and 100% clean energy.

It is the only network for UK local authorities – urban, suburban and rural – focused solely on climate change, clean air and clean energy policy.

Torrance’s session will provide an update on:

Current clean air policy and delivery developments
An overview of the scale of the challenge in improving air quality in the UK
How politics may impact on future clean air legislation.
How the fleet industry may be impacted.

Torrance said: “I want to provide an overview of the opportunities and challenges in tackling air pollution at a local level, while also highlighting the impact on fleets as CAZ plans nationally and locally are taken forward.

“These plans are progressing and changing all the time and then there’s also the context of rapid political change with the potential for a general election before the end of the year.”

UK100 will also be providing a workshop at Fleet Live to help connect businesses with local authorities to discuss ways they can increase collaboration to tackle air quality problems

The seminar takes place on day one of Fleet Live (Wednesday, October ) at 2pm, entitled Clean air zones.

> MORE: What are the UK's clean air zone plans?

Fleet Live will give the fleet management community and decision-makers the chance to face future challenges and opportunities together with two days of learning, sharing and networking on October 8-9 at the NEC in Birmingham.

The event is complementary for fleet professionals and delegates can sign up for their ticket at www.fleet-live.co.uk/online-registration.

Other seminars and speakers at Fleet Live 2019

When: Tuesday, October 8

11.00 Mobility as a Service

Tony Douglas, BMW Group Mobility Services head of brand

Sandra Witzel, Skedgo head of marketing

Explore the latest developments in MaaS and learn how cities will change in the future to facilitate smart transport. Our speakers will explain how manufacturers are shifting to become tech companies to try to keep pace with giants like Google and Apple. Plus, insight on how BMW and MercedesBenz have joined forces on mobility to battle Silicon Valley.

11.00 Which safety technology is best for your fleet?

Vipul Dave, Thatcham UK global sales manager

Gill Milner, Aviva Technical Account Manager

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are saving lives, but they’re also pushing up repair costs. Thatcham will look at repairability costs for ADAS and how this is affecting option choice and how it may impact on the roll-out of advanced technologies in the future.

This session will also assess how insurers view ADAS technology in terms of reducing insurance premiums for fleets.

Aviva’s session will explain ADAS’s relationship with insurance, what is making an impact today, the technology versus claims debate and what is coming next.

14.00 Smart urban transport strategies

Chris Lane, Transport for West Midlands head of transport innovation

Tom Hayes, Oxford City Council executive board member for A Safer and Greener Environment

Access case studies on how smart transport strategies have been implemented in two major areas of the UK.

This session will look at the Whim mobility app in action in the West Midlands and how Oxford is working with fleets to tackle challenges on air quality and last-mile deliveries in the city’s zero emissions zone.

14.00 Optimise Prime: the world’s biggest electric vehicle trial

Duncan Webb, Royal Mail commercial director

Suzanne Phillips, Hitachi Capital head of mobility solutions

Stuart Fowler, Centrica DNO commercial manager An in-depth discussion on the UK’s biggest

Commercial electric vehicle trial. Key stakeholders including Royal Mail, Centrica and Hitachi will discuss in an open Q&A style the objectives they are looking to achieve, what the process has been like so far and the next steps as part of the three-year project.

Optimise Prime looks to bring together learnings from all those involved and explore the up-front costs that are currently holding back many of the country’s biggest commercial vehicle operators from making the switch to EVs.

When: Wednesday October 9

11.00 Mobility strategies for van and truck operators

Dave Phatak, director, Ford Commercial Solutions (FCS) division at Ford Mobility in Europe

Experts in the industry will talk about last-mile delivery, how businesses will operate in the future within cities that are looking to reduce emissions, improve air quality and leverage connected technology to help fleets improve efficiency.

This session will include details on Ford’s Mobility strategy on last-mile delivery.

11.00 How to implement an electric vehicle strategy

Gary McRae, Urban Foresight principal consultant

Fraser Crichton, Dundee City Council corporate fleet operations manager

Simon King, fleet and procurement director, Mitie

Gary McRae and Fraser Crichton will explain how Dundee became a pioneer of plug-in vehicles.

Mitie’s Simon King, Mitie will also present a case study on his company’s journey to switching a large proportion of its car and van fleet to EV.

14.00 Efficient movement of people and goods on the strategic road network

Karla Jakeman, connected transport innovation lead at Innovate UK

Peter Leavy, Vodafone Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio manager connected car services

Innovate UK’s Karla Jakeman will explain solutions which use innovative technologies to leverage smarter, greener and more sustainable future mobility systems for the efficient movement of people and goods.

There will also be a case study from Vodafone on how the road network needs to be technologically upgraded to facilitate the smart roads of the future.

14.00 Clean air zones

Jason Torrance, UK100 clean air cities director

UK100’s Jason Torrance will present an update to fleet operators about a Fleet News/UK100 initiative with UK business and local authority policymakers that seeks to secure national and local support and consensus for the delivery of clean air zones.