This document provides an overview of a new resource from the Centre for Logistics and International Trade (CILT) and the Geographical Association (GA) focused on logistics education. It describes 8 fully resourced lesson plans covering different sectors and using enquiry approaches and digital mapping. It also discusses how logistics relates to the geography curriculum from key stages 1 through A-Level and provides various ideas and resources to support teaching about transport and logistics.

1. Enquiring into Logistics:
a new resource
Alan Parkinson
Head of Geography
King’s Ely Junior
Image from JR James Archive of University of Sheffield – Flickr group
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrjamesarchive/albums/with/72157634489861757 - CC licensed

2. CILT
https://www.ciltuk.org.uk/

3. Geographical Association
Consultancy
2014-15

5. 8 professional sectors that CILT
operate in…
8 resources

6. 8 fully resourced session plans
• One for each of the 8 sectors…
• “Enquiry approach”
• Making use of GI and digital
mapping
• Connected with the students’ lived
experiences where possible…

7. Vocational element…
• Logistics an area where recruitment is strong,
and which is a growing area of the economy
• Logistics requires a geographical skillset…

8. Ideas by John Lyon
1. From smart phone to my house - how my (Amazon, eBay whatever) product arrives at my house.
How am I able to track my purchase? How is it travelling - plane?
2. My Subway sandwich - where has everything that makes up my sandwich come from, how does it
travel? How is it so cheap? Who is responsible for getting it to me?
3. Going Bananas - tarantulas and bananas??
4. 'Red Bull gives you wings' but does the F1 car fly? And who else makes sure the car is at the starting
line on the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia (or wherever)
5. H&M the fashion clothing manufacturer has defined seven ambitious commitments on sustainability.
What goes into your H&M jumper(?) where does it come from and how do they ensure that it travels
sustainably?
6. Has the petrol in my family car travelled further than the car?
7. The UK is "never more than a few day days away from a significant food shortage" MPs International
Development Committee. What? So where does food our come from, why are we only days away from
empty shelves. Who is responsible for making sure I get my ....fresh fruit, Breakfast cereal, etc. How does
a supermarket keep its shelves full?

9. What is logistics?
Logistics is all about getting things from point A to
point B – safely, securely and on time.

10. Logistics literacy
http://rightmoves.tdtvictoria.org.au/introduction.htm

11. CILT video..
• The importance of logistics…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6n_2MCR9E

13. Joe Moran
“On Roads”
"the cathedrals of the modern world”
Barbara Castle on motorway interchanges…
“the most commonly viewed and
least contemplated landscape in
Britain”

14. Importance of GI and location when
making decisions…
A previous GA resource that I wrote…
http://geography.org.uk/cpdevents/on
linecpd/gis/

15. Construction….
The Leadenhall Building
https://vimeo.com/114879284

16. Transport and Logistics and the GA
Conference…
• Stands and exhibitors
• GA stand and equipment
• Caterers
• Delegates
• Hotel rooms and staffing
• Events
• Personal logistics: train tickets and travel
arrangements….

17. Transport related ideas for
activities….
http://madewithmonsterlove.itch.io/error-prone

18. Transport in the curriculum…
KS1
use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to:
key physical features, including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill,
mountain, sea,
ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather
key human features, including: city, town, village, factory, farm,
house, office, port, harbour and shop
use simple compass directions (North, South, East and West)
and locational and directional language [for example, near
and far; left and right], to describe the location of features
and routes on a map

19. Transport in the curriculum…
KS2
describe and understand key aspects of:
human geography, including: types of settlement
and land use, economic activity including trade links,
and the distribution of natural resources including
energy, food, minerals and water

20. Transport in the curriculum…
KS3
Pupils should become aware of increasingly complex
geographical systems in the world around them. They should
develop greater competence in using geographical
knowledge, approaches and concepts [such as models and
theories] and geographical skills in analysing and interpreting
different data sources

21. Transport in the curriculum…
KS3
human geography relating to: population and urbanisation;
international development; economic activity in the primary,
secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors; and the use of
natural resources
understand how human and physical processes interact to
influence, and change landscapes, environments and the
climate; and how human activity relies on effective
functioning of natural systems
use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to view, analyse
and interpret places and data

22. Transport Geographies
• Keytown bypass

23. Transport in the curriculum…
GCSE- new specifications
A case study of a city in the UK to include:
How urban change has created opportunities:
• social and economic: cultural mix, recreation and
entertainment, employment, integrated transport systems
How urban transport strategies are used to reduce traffic
congestion.

24. Transport in the curriculum…
GCSE- new specifications
Economic change in the UK:
The place of the UK in the wider world.
Links through trade, culture, transport, and electronic
communication. Economic and political links: the European
Union (EU) and Commonwealth.
Improvements and new developments in road and rail
infrastructure, port and airport capacity
Causes of economic change: de-industrialisation and decline
of traditional industrial base, globalisation and government
policies

25. Transport in the curriculum…
GCSE- new specifications
Maps:
Maps based on global and other scales may be used and
students may be asked to identify and describe significant
features of the physical and human landscape on them, e.g.
population distribution, population movements, transport
networks, settlement layout, relief and drainage

26. Transport in the curriculum…
‘A’ Level – new specifications
What are the causes of globalisation and why has it accelerated
in recent decades?

27. Eduqas
1.3.8 Rural management and the challenges of continuity and change
Managing rural change and inequality in diverse communities including
issues of housing, transport and service provision, including Broadband
provision
On-going challenges in rural places where regeneration / rebranding are
absent or have failed or have created conflict
New challenges of managing change in some rural communities associated
with counter-urbanisation and second home ownership, and possible actions
2.2.1 Globalisation, migration and a shrinking world
Growth of global systems; connections and global flows of goods,
money, people, technology and ideas
Classification of migrants and quantification and mapping of global
patterns of migration
Factors creating a shrinking world for potential migrants including
transport, communication and media representation

28. GA Journals
The Geographical Teacher
1901-1926
Geography - 1927-2012
Teaching Geography – 1979-2012

29. 1979
Copyright: GA

30. Teaching Geography 1980
Copyright:
GA

31. Pinterest Board for images…
https://uk.pinterest.com/geoblogs/cilt-ga-transport-resource/

32. Spotify Playlist for the lecture….
https://open.spotify.com/user/geoblogs/playlist/25KIbdMqUFmzk5lbzlCESe

33. http://www.costaforschools.com

36. Take you through a couple of
ideas in a little more detail to
show the process I went through…
and hopefully persuade you to use
the ideas yourself…

37. Supply Chain

38. Strategic
Road
Network
(SRN)

39. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/syst
em/uploads/attachment_data/file/382808/dft
-ris-overview.pdf

40. Route 66
• The A66… trans-Pennine route
• Used to be my route to Skye when younger…
• Haulage company – fictional, operating on
that road..
• Dealing with the various problems that might
occur along the route

41. Taken from the resource

45. A few live website demos…. Always
risky…
http://www.dft.gov.uk/traffic-counts/ - AADF (Average Annual Daily Flow)

46. http://www.collisionmap.uk/

47. http://routerisks.co.uk/

48. Shelterbox
Could you be part of an International
Rescue?
Overseas
aid…
How does it
get to the
people in
need?
CC licensedhttp://cf.owen.org/wp-content/uploads/ukaid.jpg

49. Shelterbox – based in Helston,
Cornwall
Used their resources for many years…
https://vimeo.com/53500727

50. Celine Chhea
Interviews...

52. https://soundcloud.com/shelterboxinternational

53. Shelterbox Flickr albums
Over 8000 photos of
their work around the
world

54. Disaster Diamond activity
Incident room
Vanuatu – cyclone and flooding
Earthquake last weekend !!
Disaster hotspot…

55. http://earth.nullschool.net

56. Other ideas that I pursued….
Crystal Serenity

57. ‘A soulless aluminium or steel box held
together with welds and rivets [and
with]… all the romance of a tin can’.
Mark Levinson, The Box
Copyright: Alan Parkinson

58. Reducing price of oil
• http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160303-
cheap-oil-is-taking-shipping-routes-back-to-
the-1800s
• Suez Canal costs approx £250 000 for a large
container ship to pass through

59. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat
ic_Identification_System
The Automatic Identification System (AIS)
is an automatic tracking system used on
ships and by vessel traffic services (VTS)
for identifying and locating vessels by
electronically exchanging data with other
nearby ships, AIS base stations, and
satellites

60. Copyright: GA

61. Copyright: Ben Hennig – permission to use granted

62. We are Maersk
https://vimeo.com/42613254

64. AIS – Ship Tracker
• Login and choose a ‘fleet’ of ships to follow
• Activity involves Maersk ships
• Also the MSC Oscar
Website: http://www.marinetraffic.com/

65. Crystal Serenity
Guess where this ship is going in August this year…

66. http://www.crystalcruises.com/alaska-cruises/northwest-passage--6319

67. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-1-2016-1.3516122/cruise-ship-
set-to-sail-northwest-passage-prompts-safety-environmental-concern-1.3516199
Listen to a 26 minute radio show…

68. Other sections…

69. Copyright: Alan Parkinson

70. Copyright: Alan Parkinson

71. Santander Cycle
Hire Scheme
Copyright: Alan Parkinson

72. Challenge students to spot logistics happening….
Copyright: Alan Parkinson

73. Rural public
transport –
how to
ensure that
villages are
connected?
Copyright: Alan Parkinson

74. https://mapumental.com/

75. GI Learner project
http://www.gilearner.eu

76. http://geography.org.uk/resources/transport-and-logistics-cilt-resources/

77. How to access the resources?
• Visit the LivingGeography blog
http://livinggeography.blogspot.com
• Follow me on Twitter
@GeoBlogs
@KingsElyGeog
GA website

78. Resources and reading
• CILT resource set (download from GA website)
• “Down to the sea in ships” – Horatio Clare
• “Deep sea and ocean going” – Rose George
• “On Roads” – Joe Moran
• GeographyPods
http://www.geographypods.com/2-changing-space-
--the-shrinking-world.html