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Formed
  
1 January 2006

Website
  
www.transport.gov.scot

Number of employees
  
400

Jurisdiction
  
Scotland

Founded
  
1 January 2006

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Headquarters
  
Buchanan House, 58 Port Dundas Road, Glasgow G4 0HF

CEO
  
David Middleton (Feb 2009–)

Executive Agency executive
  
Roy Brannen, Chief Executive

Minister responsible
  
Keith Brown, Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities

Transport Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Còmhdhail Alba) was created on 1 January 2006 as the national transport agency of Scotland. It is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government and accountable to Scottish Ministers.

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Organisation

As of September 2010 Transport Scotland merged with Transport Directorate of core Scottish Government. They continue to be called Transport Scotland although they now have responsibility for all transport related issues across Scotland.

The agency currently has six directorates:

  • Aviation, Maritime, Freight and Canals
  • Finance, Corporate and Analytical Services
  • Major Transport Infrastructure Projects
  • Transport Policy
  • Rail
  • Trunk Road and Bus Operations

    • Transport Scotland works in partnership with private sector transport operators, local authorities and government. It also works closely with the four current voluntary regional transport partnerships (RTPs). The Scottish Government is bringing forward legislation for the creation of statutory RTPs which will be able to take a strategic view of the transport needs of people and businesses in each region.

    Transport Scotland are also responsible for managing Traffic Scotland.

    Traffic Scotland

    Through the Traffic Scotland service, Transport Scotland provides a public service that aims to deliver safe and reliable trunk roads. The focus of Traffic Scotland is to minimise the effects of congestion, breakdowns and unforeseen events on the trunk road network. The Traffic Scotland service delivers traveller information for the Scottish Trunk Road network through a process of 'monitor, control and inform'.

  • Monitor: The Traffic Scotland service monitors the network using CCTV, roadside hardware, communication with the police, weather forecasts and major event management services.
  • Control: All information collected through the monitoring process is processed within the Traffic Scotland Control Centre. The Traffic Scotland Control Centre operates 24 hours a day to ensure that traffic and travel information disseminated as part of the Traffic Scotland service is accurate.
  • Inform: Traffic and travel information processed by the Traffic Scotland Control Centre is then disseminated via the Traffic Scotland service, including the Traffic Scotland website, the Traffic Customer Care Line, the Traffic Scotland mobile website, the Traffic Scotland Information Kiosks, road side Variable Message Signs (VMS) and via the multiple Traffic Scotland data services available to public, corporate and media users.

    • Traffic Scotland also provide Freight Information which is a real-time traffic information website aimed at logistics operators and HGV drivers operating in Scotland. This section of their site provides the same functionality with some additional freight related information and web-links.

    In November 2016 they introduced a real-time service to allow drivers to track which roads had been gritted.

    Railways

    In September 2008 Transport Scotland announced that all First ScotRail trains (including from the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport) would be eventually repainted in a new, blue livery with white Saltire markings on the carriage ends. The livery would remain unchanged in the event of a change of operating franchisee.

    West

    Strathclyde Partnership for Transport

  • Argyll and Bute (Helensburgh and Lomond only)
  • East Ayrshire
  • East Dunbartonshire
  • East Renfrewshire
  • Glasgow City
  • Inverclyde
  • North Ayrshire
  • North Lanarkshire
  • Renfrewshire
  • South Ayrshire
  • South Lanarkshire
  • West Dunbartonshire

    • South West

    SWESTRANS

  • Dumfries and Galloway

    • South-East

    SESTRANS

  • City of Edinburgh
  • Clackmannanshire
  • East Lothian
  • Falkirk
  • Fife
  • Midlothian
  • Scottish Borders
  • West Lothian

    • Central and Tay

    TACTRAN

  • Angus
  • Dundee City
  • Perth and Kinross
  • Stirling

    • North-East

    NESTRANS

  • Aberdeen City
  • Aberdeenshire

    • Highlands and Islands

    HITRANS

  • Argyll and Bute (less Helensburgh and Lomond)
  • Outer Hebrides
  • Highland
  • Moray
  • Orkney

    • Shetland

    ZetTrans

  • Shetland

    • References

    Transport Scotland Wikipedia
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