Low Carbon Access Strategies for Inverness and Kirkwall Airports
Low Carbon Surface Access Strategies Inverness and Kirkwall Airports PREPARED FOR: HITRANS HIAL Urban Foresight® is a multidisciplinary innovation practice that is dedicated to advancing the next generation of technologies, services and policy frameworks for cities. We work with ambitious organisations around the world on projects that improve lives, protect the environment and boost local economies. Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership (HITRANS) is the statutory regional transport partnership covering Eilean Siar (Western Isles), Orkney, Highland, Moray and most of the Argyll and Bute area. HITRANS work with Councils, the Scottish overnment, Transport Scotland, HIE, transport operators and other stakeholders to improve transport services and infrastructure in the north of Scotland and on routes to the Highlands and Islands. Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) is the company that owns and operates 11 airports in the Scottish Highlands, the Northern Isles and the Western Isles. These airports include Inverness and Kirkwall. The Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) Programme , co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), forms a cooperation between 9 programme partner countries: the Member States of Finland, Ireland, Sweden and the UK (Scotland and Northern Ireland) in cooperation with the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Norway. Version: 2.0 Project ref: 1815 Executive Summary This study has been prepared for Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership (HITRANS) and Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL), in support of the Smart Peripheral and Remote Airports (SPARA) project. This study has considered best practice in decarbonising surface access to and from remote and peripheral airports to inform the development of low carbon access strategies and subsequent delivery of priority programmes at Inverness airport and Kirkwall airport.
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