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Current Awareness Bulletin (CAB)

3rd February 2010

Dear Member,

Wow! Thanks to all those who responded so quickly to our email inviting you to join up to our new Professional Sectors and Forums on Monday. In just a few hours we had shed loads of responses! Just in case you missed it click here.

There are eight exciting new professional sectors and a packed train-full of associated Forums; trust me, somewhere amongst them there will be something directly relevant to you. So do choose yours as soon as you can. It really will make your Institute more relevant to your profession and special interests. Oh, and you can pick as many as you want. Which is nice.

If you can’t be bothered with all the online joining sectors malarkey (you’ll need a password registered) the good news is your proper printed Focus is dropping on your doormat this week, and there’s an old fashioned form to choose your Professional Sectors and Forums both on the back of the address sheet, inside on page 12 or available to download here. Send it back to us by post or you can fax it back on 01536 740101.

We’ve introduced eight new Professional Sectors, Supply Chain; Transport Planning; Rail; Active Travel & Travel Planning; Bus and Coach; Ports Maritime Waterways; Freight Forwarding and Aviation. They all have three or four Forums – and one has 22! We’ve done it because members wanted it made clearer that there is an area of Institute activity dedicated to their interests. Let us know what you think of the new sectors.

And we’re not here to dictate. The Forums aren’t set in stone. For example I’m already hearing comments that a bus forum or a light rail forum would be desirable, and under the new structure that’s easy enough to create. In fact if just six or seven keen members want to come together to create a Forum on, oh I don’t know, RFID or taxicabs, then just let us know............more

David Jinks
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