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Good Practice Guide - A guide on how to set up and run Freight Quality Partnerships

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Table of contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • 1. About this Guide
  • 1.1 What are FQPs?
  • 1.2 How to use this guide
  • 2. Why FQPs?
  • 2.1 Sustainable Distribution Strategies
  • 2.2 Role of FQPs
  • 2.3 Benefits of FQPs
  • 3. Initiating an FQP
  • 3.1 Setting Objectives
  • 3.2 Who should be involved?
  • 3.3 Management
  • 3.4 Meetings
  • 3.5 Funding
  • 3.6 FQP Agreements
  • 3.7 Potential Problems and How to Deal With Them
  • 4. FQP action plans
  • 4.1 Identifying specific issues and problems
  • 4.2 Implementing solutions - a menu of initiatives
  • 4.3 The action plan
  • 5. Maintaining momentum
  • 5.1 How do you maintain interest and commitment?
  • 5.2 Publicity and dissemination
  • 5.3 Monitoring and evaluation
  • 6. Contacts and Sources of Information
  • 6.1 Freight Industry
  • 6.2 Business
  • 6.3 Transport Infrastructure
  • 6.4 Environmental Groups
  • 6.5 Existing FQPs
  • 6.6 Policy Advice
  • 6.7 Sustainable Distribution Grants
  • 6.8 Sustainable Distribution Best Practice Guidance
  • Appendix 1: Example Business Survey
  • Appendix 2: Example driver survey from the FTA

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