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COMING EVENTS 4 June Rail and Caledonian/MacBrayne Ferry Users Consultative Committee, 21st Statutory Meeting (open to the public), Stakis Hotel, Gourock - details from Bill Ure, RUCC Secretary 0141 221 7760. ISSUE 5 10 June TR & IN Railways in the Community, Marine Hotel, Spring 1999 North Berwick on 01484 549737. ISSN 1462-8708 15 June Community Transport Association Training Roadshow, Glasgow. Further information from Highbank, Halton Street, Hyde. Cheshire SK14 2NY. 21-22 June Integrated Transport - the route to regional economic development? University of Plymouth (close to city centre), Plymouth. Fees from £250 - information from Conference South West (ITC), 19 The Crescent, PLYMOUTH PL1 3AD SPECIAL THEME 23 June Tackling Car Dependency - Making better use of the Car, TechnoCentre,Puma Way, COVENTRY CV1 2TT 01203 236292. Class 170 Turbostar to be delivered from 23 June Cleaner Fuels, Cleaner Vehicles, Landor Conferences and Birmingham City Council, Austin May and introduced between Edinburgh and PASSENGER TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT Court, 80 Cambridge St, BIRMINGHAM. Fees from £170+VAT - information from Glasgow in September: ScotRail Conference Office, Landor Publishing, Quadrant House, 250 Kennington Lane, LONDON SE11 5RD. Fax 0171 242 2324. AND INTEGRATION 13 July Transport Priorities for a Scottish Parliament, Stakis Grosvenor Hotel, Haymarket, Edinburgh. Contact Karen Lynch, Centre for Transport Policy, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Tel 01224 263134 Fax 01224 263100. 27-29 Sept The European Transport Conference, Robinson College, Cambridge. This is the Annual Conference of the former PTRC International Association, renamed the Association for European Transport (ATE) in 1998 - for information, contact Sally Scarlett or Claire Moore at PTRC, Glenthorne House, Hammersmith Grove, LONDON W6 OLG. Tel 0181 741 1516. Fax 0181 741 5993. E-mail: [email protected]. http://www.aetransport. demon. co.uk. or request invoice for £ Fax (0131) 455 5141 TRI NEWS Jakki McKellar, formerly of Paisley University and Scottish Enterprise, and Neil Toy, from Maritime Studies at the University of Plymouth, have been appointed to work on the PACTS project (dealing with sea crossings to Europe, see STR Issue 4) at the Maritime Research Unit. James Cooper and Tim Ryley, from the University of Ulster, have joined Prof. Austin CONTENTS Smyth’s team working on the EPSRC Sustainable Cities Project Page 2 Editorials Tim Waters-Fuller has joined the School of the Built Environment. His expertise is in EDITORIAL transport noise. Page 4 Transport Policies Alf Baird, Director of the Maritime Research Unit has been awarded a PhD for his thesis on globalisation in the container shipping industry. He has also been appointed a council Almost one year since publication Page 6 Transport Services member of the International Association of Maritime Economists of the Transport White Papers and Page 7 Infrastructure with the Scottish Parliament now having responsibility for transport Dr Tom Rye has been seconded to Colin Buchanan and Partners to work on the Local Transport Strategy for the City of Edinburgh. He is integration within Scotland, this also working on a travel diary survey for Fife Council Page 8 Property and Land Uses issue of the Review takes Passenger Transport Development and Integration as its special theme. As government policy makes clear, New Research Projects across TRI Page 9 Sustainable Transport and there is also a need to integrate transport with other economic, social Distribution: Reviews by Tom Rye, and planning policies. Progress is being made on this holistic front, The Scottish Office, through DETR, has awarded a joint contract to ITS Leeds and TRI Napier to investigate behaviour at passenger TRI and Prof Alan McKinnon, as evidenced by the new guidelines on Transport and Planning (p 8) transport interchanges. TRI will be responsible for focus groups, attitude surveys and the survey work for stated preference experiments. Heriot Watt University and by the refinement of policies for social inclusion and health, yet Contact Dr Julian Hine 0131 455 5140 it will be important to avoid the pitfalls of excessive bureaucracy, Page 10 Railtrack Strategies for Scotland departmental in-fighting and the ministerial graveyard depicted TRI has been successful in hte recent EPSRC (Engineering and physical Sciences Research Council) call for proposals under their “ when ‘Yes Minister’ dealt with integrated transport in a well-known Nigel Wunsch, Railtrack Sustainable Cities” programme. A grant was awarded to Prof Jon Kerridge (School of Computing) and Dr Julian Hine (School of Built and recently repeated episode. Environment) entitled: Pedflow – a tool to aid the design of pedestrian networks and facilities in urban areas. The project will develop a pedestrian flow model in collaboration with the City of Edinburgh Council and Halcrow Fox. (Contact Prof Kerridge on 0131 455 4395). Page 12 Glasgow Keeps Moving For many people and for government itself, one of the main tests of Colin Badger, Glasgow City Council successful integration will be the ability to take practical action to Scottish Office, Stagecoach and Forth Ports have funded a study of the potential for cross-Forth fast ferries as a passenger alternative to the ensure better public transport services, good information, attractive congested Forth Road Bridge. Alf Baird and Tom Rye will be involved in this project. Page 14 Scottish Buses : A Return to ticketing and easy interchange (including interchange from cars and to air and ferries). This can offer the dual benefits of social inclu- Stability? Jonathan Cowie, The Go-Ahead Group is to fund a research studentship at TRI in the passenger transport area. Department of Economics sion and a proven ability to achieve shifts from car use to public Glasgow Caledonian University transport. The main articles deal with expanding Railtrack partner- ship programmes to increase track capacity, complementing increas- Barry Hutton, Dr Wafaa Saleh and Dr Tom Rye have been awarded a project from the TRICS consortium to reduce current problems in es in rolling stock for both passenger and freight services, and with a using TRICS for mixed-use sites. Page 16 Public Transport Fund Grants new stability in the bus industry which secures a better base for con- verting the bus from ‘workhorse to thoroughbred’ in full partnership Page 17 Current Statistics with local councils and a sympathetic Parliament. 1998 saw the first decline in Forth Road Bridge traffic since 1974 (p 18) and, LATE NEWS Page 19 Research Digest though special features such as roadworks contributed, this change also points to the possibility, and probability, of longer-term shifts Page 20 Business and Personnel from cars to public transport development and, within towns and cities, to increased reliance on walking and cycling as part of inte- The Glasgow Airport Quality Partnership involving Glasgow Airport Ltd, SPTE, grated and cost-effective strategies. Renfrewshire Council and all three bus operators serving the airport was officially launched Page 22 Publications on 26 April 1999. The initiative has already seen major commitments to improving service Tom Hart, Editor quality, identity, timetable co-ordination and promotion. This includes the introduction by Inside Rear Cover TRI News and Late News Arriva of Scotland’s first LPG (liquid petroleum gas) buses on the Airport-City Centre Editorial Board route. Outside Rear Cover Coming Events T.Hart, B. Weddell, D. Halden, I. McMahon, S. Lockley, Prof. H. Kirby, R. Petersen and A. Sieker THE STB ‘Attraction Monitor’ for 1998, prepared by Professor John Lennon of Glasgow Caledonian University, shows a 1% fall in visitor numbers, likely to be an actual fall of The aims of the Scottish Transport Studies Group are “ to stimulate 4.2% due to problems in using estimated numbers. Only Greater Glasgow, Dumfries and interest in, and awareness of, the transport function and its impor- Galloway and Orkney had an upturn in visitor numbers. The Glasgow rise, at 6%, had a Published by STSG tance for the Scottish economy; to encourage contacts between major influence in slowing the overall Scottish fall but Redwood House, 66 Spylaw Road operators, public bodies, users, academia and other organisations several areas had falls of 6% with the highest fall, 11%, in the Western Isles (Herald 28 and individuals with interests in transport in a Scottish context; to EDINBURGH EH10 5BR April) issue publications and organise conferences and seminars related to transport policy and research.” With support from TRI Napier University and sponsorship A decision on the Larkhall Rail Extension is not now likely before September (see p7). In from Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Airports, First Group its latest report, DETA Select Committee has called for faster process on Contributions for the next issue should be sent to the editor at implementing integrated transport and land use policies (LTT 6 May) and Highlands and Islands Enterprise Redwood House by 30 July 1999 or by e-mail to [email protected]. Improved bus stop information in Printed on Chlorine-Free paper The Borders and the Waverley Route, E.Bort and C. Harvie (Eds), £3, University of Edinburgh, International Social Sciences Institute. Edinburgh (see p6) DJ Cook, Publicity by Paragon Design and Print Cover Picture by courtesy of TMS, ScotRail, Loganair, Officer, Lothian Regional Transport 10 Lawn Street, PAISLEY PA1 1HB Caledonian MacBrayne and Scottish Rail Developments Publications 22 Special Editorial – Transport under the Scottish Parliament 3 Regional Eurostar Services, Report by House of Commons DETR Select Committee, HC 89 1999 HMSO £11.50 and government response Cm4314 1999 £1.50 HMSO The Scottish Parliament is now elected with no party having over 50% of either votes or seats. What this means for transport will emerge in the next Integrated Transport, 9th Report of House of Commons DETR Select Committee, A Response to the Integrated Transport White Paper, Vol 1 April, 1999 £12.50 HMSO few months. Prospects range from delay, punctuated by a few ‘pork barrel’ projects, to a new vision for practical yet strategic improvement.
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