Transport & Logistics

Transport and logistics runs on handovers. A depot conversation after a difficult shift, a yard briefing where being clear matters more than being quick, a driver at the door of the vehicle who should not be driving. The work is distributed, the shifts do not overlap, and the people who need the conversation are rarely in a classroom.

Key takeaway

PTR has delivered VR training to a rail operator: three workshops with Metro Trains, run with Grit Leadership, using the Everyday Inclusion module. That work was leadership and inclusion training.

A simulated rail maintenance yard at dawn, plain rolling stock and gravel ballast in cold flat light, where two crew stand together beside the track.

Work in this sector

Metro Trains: gender equity

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Metro Trains had already used VR successfully for technical training and wanted to know whether the same medium could work for soft-skills development, specifically whether immersive learning could surface systemic bias and shift leadership mindsets across the organisation. Working with Grit Leadership, PTR delivered three targeted VR sessions using the Everyday Inclusion module from the PTR Library, the same module previously deployed with Etihad Airways: a head office staff workshop, an operational leaders workshop, and a session for the wider leadership group.

Read the Metro Trains case study

Scope of this work

PTR has delivered one program in this sector so far, leadership and inclusion training for Metro Trains. The clips below simulate the conversations this work turns on across depots, yards, cabs and platforms.

What practice looks like in transport and logistics

The moments we build practice for in transport and logistics.

A yard handover where being clear matters most.

The pre-start, with the oldest and newest hand in the same row.

A depot conversation after a difficult shift.

The conversation about fatigue, before the shift starts.

Coming down to the level of the person on the apron.

Being heard over the noise, and checking that you were.

The ramp, and stepping aside rather than taking hold.

The platform, from where the passenger is standing.

The question from the aisle, on a wet night.

Related PTR work

This engagement is also listed under workplace and enterprise, because the program was leadership and inclusion training that happened to be delivered to a rail operator. As operations-side engagements land here, we will add them the same way as every other industry page: named, with the case study linked in full.

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