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Around
SOUTH Up
WALES
NEWS AND

IN THE NSW TAXI INDUSTRY

GOLD

LEVEL

TRAINING

NSW TAXI DRIVERS

The Gold Level Training Program offered by Recently in September 2019, over 30 Taxi
NSW Taxi Council focuses on upskilling Taxi Drivers and Operators from Griffith Taxis in
Drivers who provide transport to passengers NSW completed the program which focuses
with Special Needs in NSW. The Gold Level on assisting passengers with special needs.
Training has received endorsement from the This training was co-ordinated and conducted
Department of Veteran Affairs and is a great together by Griffith Taxis and NSW Taxi
program for any Taxi Network looking to build Council over a period of two days.
their business with the special needs sector.

NSW TAXI COUNCIL AT
INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT & MAAS

GLOBAL FORUM

The CEO and Deputy CEO of NSW Taxi Council
represented the Taxi Industry at the Intelligent
Transport and Mobility as a Service Global
Forum on the 2nd and 3rd September as
L-R: Martin Rogers, CEO and Nick Abrahim, Deputy CEO industry.
an Association Partner and connected with
multiple stakeholders across the transport

The Deputy CEO of the NSW Taxi Council
presented on the topic of ‘On Demand Public
Transport in Sydney, What Lessons Have Been
Learned’ at the forum and also represented
the NSW Taxi Industry on a Roundtable, as
well as Panel Discussions held at the forum
means for Taxis’ and ‘Impact of MAAS on future
of Urban Mobility’.
8 DRIVE A2B magazine · October 2019 on ‘Mobility as a service (MAAS) : What does it