Scottish Executive Enterprise, Transport
and Lifelong Learning Department
January 2005
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SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE
TRANSPORT RESPONSIBILITIES (1)
Include policy on, and delivery of
– Trunk Roads - 3,500 Km
– Lifeline Services including Ferries, Air Services and
Highland Airports
– Toll bridges
– Freight
– Inland Waterways*
– Road Safety
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SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE
TRANSPORT RESPONSIBILITIES (2)
- Traffic Management
- Ports and harbours
- Public and rural transport
- Aviation
- Cycling and Walking
- Bus policy*
- Rail franchise, policy and projects*
- Rail network management and maintenance**
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LOCAL AUTHORITY
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Local roads - construction, maintenance and
management
• Road user charging schemes (local roads only)
• Subsidising bus routes
• Local Transport Strategies
• Bus (and some rail) infrastructure
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PRIVATE SECTOR COMPANIES
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Buses - StageCoach, First Bus, Arriva….
Rail
- ScotRail, GNER, Virgin, EWS…
Air
- BA, BMid, EasyJet, Loganair….
Ferry - Superfast, P+O, Stena…..
Freight - Freightliner, Stobart, Salvesen...
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PUBLIC SECTOR COMPANIES
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Caledonian MacBrayne
Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd
(NorthLink)
British Waterways
Lothian Regional Transport
(Network Rail)
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"A Partnership for
a Better Scotland"
• …need reliable, efficient transport. ….. central to a
thriving economy and strong communities
• ... put in place an integrated transport system ... goods to
market quickly and efficiently….people to work safely and
on time
• .. connect the whole country and be connected …. aim is
an accessible Scotland with a modern, safe, efficient and
sustainable transport system
• ... transport system should be sustainable, minimising
impacts on our environment, particularly by greater use of
public transport
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Transport White Paper:
Aim
Our overall aim is to promote economic
growth, social inclusion, health and
protection of our environment through a
safe, integrated, effective and efficient
transport system
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Transport White Paper:
Objectives
• Promote economic growth by building, enhancing, managing and
maintaining transport services, infrastructure and networks to
maximise their efficiency
• Promote social inclusion by connecting remote and disadvantaged
communities and increasing the accessibility of the transport network
• Protect our environment and improve health by building and investing
in public transport and other types of efficient and sustainable transport
which minimise emissions and consumption of resources and energy
• Improve safety of journeys by reducing accidents and enhancing the
personal safety of pedestrians, drivers, passengers and staff
• Improve integration by making journey planning and ticketing easier
and working to ensure smooth connection between different forms of
transport
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SR 05/08
Commitments
• …Increase passenger journeys on the Scottish rail
network by an average of 2% each year.
• …Increase local bus journeys by an average of 1%
each year.
• …70% of the Scottish Executive transport
spending to go on public transport over the period
of the long-term investment plan with the ultimate
aim to promote more sustainable transport.
• …Transfer a further 2 million lorry miles per year
from road to rail or water.
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ONGOING WORK - 1: STAG
• Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance
• Full assessment against the 5 objectives
– Economy
– Accessibility & Social Inclusion
– Environment
– Safety
– Integration
• STAG is currently being revised in light if the
requirements of the EU Directive on SEA
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ONGOING WORK - 2
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Scottish Travel Awareness Campaign ChooseAnotherWay
Freight Facilities Grants
Support for the UK Powering Future Vehicles Strategy
Support for DfT’s current development work on biofuels,
including a study on a RTFO
• Support for the Scotland’s first large-scale biodiesel plant
being built near Motherwell
• Reducing transport of timber by road - £13m timber
transport fund
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ONGOING WORK- 3
• Commissioned work on the production of new guidance to
local authorities on road traffic reduction
• Support to Local Authorities wishing to introduce roadcharging schemes
• Targeted Improvements to the trunk road network to
reduce congestion and improve car efficiency including
reduced emissions
• Launch of ‘Transport Direct’
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Sustainable Development Issues - 1
• transport infrastructure, from footpaths to motorways, is
part of our environment: opening up opportunities and
contributing to sustainable and accessible communities.
• its construction and use can have negative environmental
impacts such as community severance, loss of green space,
poorer air quality and increased noise, which affect
people’s health and quality of life.
• the Executive is endeavouring to stabilise road traffic
volumes and are supporting the expansion of transport,
walking and cycling in order to reduce impacts on the
environment.
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Sustainable Development Issues - 2
• Trunk road biodiversity action plan – published in
1999 – promotes the development of sustainable,
cost effective management practices that work
with natural processes
– Much of the estate is rural and the land area is spread
over a wide network passing through many different
landscape character areas and habitat types.
– The soft verges and earthworks are often among the
few places where wildlife can thrive in intensively
managed agricultural landscapes.
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Sustainable Development Issues - 3
• significant investment in the Scotrail franchise will help
protect and enhance our environment, promote public
transport and encourage people out of private cars, reduce
congestion, reduce emissions and consumption of
resources and energy.
• promotion of Green Transport Plans will support
sustainable development and protect the environment by
contributing to traffic reduction generally and urban
congestion reduction in particular.
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Sustainable Development Issues - 4
• Lifeline links – air and ferry
• Support for rural communities through the
rural community transport initiative
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National Transport Strategy
• Major analysis and consultation process running
through to 2006.
• Key focus on economy, environment and social
inclusion
• Will lay the foundations for the strategic projects
review to start by 2007
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National Transport Strategy
• Key challenges include balancing economic
growth with increased propensity to travel
and resulting environmental impact
• Opportunities for joint working, running in
parallel with the climate change review
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Scottish Executive Enterprise, Transport
and Lifelong Learning Department
January 2004
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