Future of Buses
How should Scotland ensure that its bus industry fulfills its potential? Zero emissions buses are one of the cheapest and most efficient way to decarbonise travel and use roadspace better […]
Debates
What Should Local Authorities Include in their 2022 Manifesto Commitments?
With budget challenges, declining staff resources, and increasingly controversial transport choices many prospective transport Councillors might be forgiven for trying to duck hard transport choices. However the challenges of declining […]
A New Look at Making Sustainable Transport Work for Everyone
There is a lot of talk about ‘what’ changes are needed to decarbonise transport, but far less attention is paid to ‘how’ the change is managed. Are we expecting too […]
Improving Transport Provision through Land Use Planning
Since the 1990s Scottish planning policy has required new development to demonstrate its sustainability credentials. However a recent report from Living Streets Scotland shows that best practice is routinely being […]
What Should be the Future for Micro-Mobility?
Segway is ending production of its celebrated 2 -wheeler. It was popular for tours and with the police but once the novelty had worn off electric scooters were proving to […]
Net Zero Scottish Transport
The Scottish Government is seeking to move to a net-zero economy by 2045. This will mean huge changes for the transport sector in Scotland. To achieve this level of change […]
Covid-19 and Scottish Transport
The global pandemic is transforming attitudes and behaviour. Please use this page to post observations and comments about the unfolding events and their effect on Scottish transport.
MaaS Movement or Delusion
Jonathan Bray, director of the Urban Transport Group writing in Passenger Transport magazine explains that the much talked about Mobility as a Service has everything yet still to prove. There […]
Transport and Society
Transport investment has been widening the inequality gap. Is it time for a fresh approach to deliver fairer and more efficient transport systems? Improving mobility for people has been a […]
Time to Stop Minding the Gap and Fix It
People have long thought that transport is male dominated because the people working in the sector have predominantly male interests like train-spotting and cars. Perhaps we have been looking at […]
Transport Forecasts and Self Fulfilling Prophesies
In November 2018 Transport Scotland published their first transport demand forecasts. In the past reliance was made on the forecasts published by the Department for Transport in London. Transport Scotland […]
Aligning Policy Goals with Transport Delivery Business Models
Derek Halden first presented on this subject to the STSG Funding Scottish Transport Conference in 2006. In the 12 years since then much has changed and this presentation to the […]