The Institute of Transport Management
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The Institute of Transport Management is a non-profit organisation founded in the United Kingdom
in 1977 to aid in oversee and reform the standards in the transport industry. It is based in Balsall Heath
in the West Midlands
.
The institute's stated objectives are amongst others:
Its principal activity has been the distribution of awards to companies, nominally those with innovative transport products and services. However, companies are invited to nominate themselves and effectively to pay the institute for "accreditation" or "evaluation", an interesting variant on vanity publishing
. Perhaps as a result, the award categories have varied from year to year and have included Chemical Distribution Company of the Year, OEM-Approved Lubricants of the Year, Fuel Card of the Year, Independent Vehicle Remarketing Company of the Year, and Warehouse Management Solutions Company of the Year.
The organisation's website lists a number of "Accredited Suppliers", many of whom are no longer in existence.
United Kingdom
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in 1977 to aid in oversee and reform the standards in the transport industry. It is based in Balsall Heath
Balsall Heath
Balsall Heath is a working class, inner-city area of Birmingham, England. It is home to a diverse cultural mix of people and the location of the Balti Triangle.-History:...
in the West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...
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The institute's stated objectives are amongst others:
- To promote academic achievement, training and professionalism within the transportTransportTransport or transportation is the movement of people, cattle, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations...
and logisticsLogisticsLogistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...
industry. - To monitor and improve standards through ongoing research and communications programmes.
- To award industry members for significant achievements in the development of transport solutions.
Its principal activity has been the distribution of awards to companies, nominally those with innovative transport products and services. However, companies are invited to nominate themselves and effectively to pay the institute for "accreditation" or "evaluation", an interesting variant on vanity publishing
Vanity press
A vanity press or vanity publisher is a term describing a publishing house that publishes books at the author's expense. Publisher Johnathon Clifford claims to have coined the term in 1959. However, the term appears in mainstream U.S...
. Perhaps as a result, the award categories have varied from year to year and have included Chemical Distribution Company of the Year, OEM-Approved Lubricants of the Year, Fuel Card of the Year, Independent Vehicle Remarketing Company of the Year, and Warehouse Management Solutions Company of the Year.
The organisation's website lists a number of "Accredited Suppliers", many of whom are no longer in existence.