157 Publications

The purpose of this research was to gage the feasibility of local roads raising income through permitting roadside advertising at appropriate locations.

A two-year study in collaboration with Scotland’s Timber Transport Groups to identify, develop and test a consistent methodology for the collection and collation of a national database of exit points where timber tonnages would join the public road network.

This paper summarises the responses to the consultation on changes to bus registration in Scotland and outlines how Transport Scotland intends to proceed in the light of them

Allocation of funding towards collaborative trials of Brine-only spreading as a form of winter treatment, along with a wide scale trial of imbiber products.

The Transport Accessibility Summit held in Edinburgh in March 2015 provided an opportunity for transport service providers and central and local government policy colleagues to find out directly from disabled people how accessibility issues affected them. Transport Scotland commissioned Research Scotland to produce a report of the findings of the day. An on-line survey was also carried out by the Scottish Disability Equality Forum to get the views of disabled people who were unable to attend the summit. The survey summary sets out the main priorities identified

The Transport Accessibility Summit held in Edinburgh in March 2015 provided an opportunity for transport service providers and central and local government policy colleagues to find out directly from disabled people how accessibility issues affected them

Study to investigate the conflict between road drainage design and flood risk management. The study will cover both new build and retrofitted schemes.

Transport Scotland committed to undertake a comprehensive review of freight fares policy and develop options for future fares strategies

Transport Scotland has developed rail evaluation guidance. This will help assess the extent to which investments in rail projects in Scotland have been a good use of public money, including whether their transport planning objectives have been met