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Scottish Freight Strategy Scoping Study

Client:  Scottish Executive

Main contractor: WSP Consulting    http://www.wspgroup.com

Other partners:  Scottish Council Development and Industry, Pantrack

Period: January-June 2006

LRC team: A. McKinnon and C. Marchant

Outline

This ‘scoping study’ was designed to support the development of Scotland’s first freight transport strategy. It reviewed a range of freight transport and logistics trends affecting Scotland, analysed available statistics on freight movements by all modes both within Scotland and on external link and included a large-scale consultation exercise with all the main stakeholder groups.  The study also identified a broad array of freight policy options for Scotland.   The LRC contributed to several parts of the project.  It was responsible for the reviewing trends and assessing their policy implications.  It also worked with the SCDI to design and run a large postal questionnaire survey of Scottish businesses which generated 100 responses.  It ran three focus group workshops on Scotland’s international transport links, inter-urban freight movements within Scotland and local distribution in urban and rural areas.   The results of these activities featured prominently in the final report.

Output

The Final Report, entitled ‘Scottish Freight Strategy Scoping Study’, can be downloaded from the Scottish Government website:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/917/0034322.pdf

report cover

 

Diagram

Freight Strategy Objectives and Issues


Policy Implications

Following the completion of the Scoping Study the Scottish Executive published a Freight Action Plan for Scotland in November 2006.  It can be downloaded from:

 

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/154893/0041640.pdf

 

Policy Document Cover

A presentation given by Professor McKinnon, entitled ‘Freight and Logistics in Scotland: An Overview’, can be downloaded from:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/1117/0019220.pdf

This was delivered at the ‘Freight Strategy for Scotland’ seminar organised by the Scottish Executive on the 15th August 2005.

Related Downloads

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/917/0034322.pdfhttp://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/1117/0019220.pdf