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 Our transport network is there to allow goods and people to move as efficiently as possible and key to achieving this are public transport services ranging from high speed rail through to commercial urban buses, demand responsive bus services and lifeline ferries.
The work to develop and maintain these networks, whether they be rail, road or sea has to be integrated across the myriad of agencies, interest groups and service providers to ensure that the public are getting the best possible value for their money.
 SCOTS is fully supportive of the need to integrate the delivery of projects and initiatives to ensure that public transport can continue to play a key role in allowing people and goods to travel sustainably. This includes the desire to promote behaviour change to the wider population of Scotland in order to achieve a shift in travel mode. With this as an objective, our members have worked with Scottish Government and transport operators to jointly develop guidance documents for all local authorities and operators on issues ranging from park-and-ride and bus priority to information systems. These are now with all local authorities.
This guideline is also disseminated to the wider transport community, aimed at enhancing public transport and encouraging modal shift. We make significant contributions to the development of transport policy by Scottish Government and act as advisors to COSLA on issues of strategic transport. In particular, SCOTS executive members sit on the National Transport Strategy Project Board and will play a key role in the upcoming refresh of that document.
On an ongoing basis, our working groups prepare consultation responses on topics such as active travel, cycling and walking and carbon reduction, which are then adopted by COSLA. |
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