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Organisational Profile
Background to the Organisation
Transport Scotland (TS) is Scotland’s national transport agency, delivering the Scottish Government’s (SG) vision for transport. We currently have eight directorates, each supporting different areas of the transport system in Scotland with one overseeing TS’s corporate functions, as shown in Figure 1.
This corporate structure delivers operational, strategic, and policy-based actions across a number of transport areas, based on the level of influence for each mode, including infrastructure, public transport, active travel, and freight. TS works closely with a number of stakeholders and partners in this regard.
We currently employ over 500 members of staff and operate from a mixture of leased and owned property in Glasgow, Edinburgh and South Queensferry. Our most recent Corporate Business Plan has a specific delivery priority to reduce emissions, and the second National Transport Strategy (NTS2) seeks to ‘take climate action’ by identifying “travel choices that minimise the long-term impacts on our climate and the wellbeing of future generations”.
Our Annual Business Plans commit to implementing a Carbon Management Plan (CMP), and we have also stipulated this as a specific deliverable within the NTS2 Delivery Plan. Through our CMP we will seek to reduce those emissions that fall directly within our operational control to enable us to set an organisational pathway to Net Zero, as well as supporting reductions for emissions within our wider scope of influence.