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The Highlands and Islands should aspire to a mainstream passenger transport system which promotes accessibility and is, as much as possible, easy to comprehend and use. The passenger transport system in the region currently involves a number of means of transport, which makes quality and opportunity for interchange between modes very important.

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Scottish Islands Passport

App including 72 inhabited, accessible islands linked to stamp network and themed travelogues to encourage balanced and sustainable travel.

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People and Place Programme

Behaviour change and access to bikes; increasing the mode share of active travel for local journeys.

The START Project

Seamless Travel Across Atlantic Area Regions.

The Clim-ATIC Project

Establishing a sustainable advice and training service for community climate change adaptation across the whole of the Northern Periphery.

The TransTourism Project

Creating travel itineraries, advice, blogs and realtime travel updates for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

AFLOAT

Drawing together partners in the UK (including HITRANS and SPT), Ireland, Spain and Portugal.

The CHRONOS Project

Stimulating technology enabled innovation in areas which offer the greatest scope for boosting UK growth and productivity.

Food Port Project

Food products delivered via efficient and sustainable transport systems.

Cearcaill na Gàidhlig

Cearcaill na Gàidhlig (the Gaelic Rings) is a tourism marketing initiative seeking to create an authentic Gaelic-based tourism experience.

G-PaTRA

Green Passenger Transport in Rural Areas, working to accelerate the use of zero emission vehicles and vessels in public transport.

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Smart Cities

Collaboration with The Highland Council to deliver two phases of the ERDF funded Smart Cities programme for the Inverness City Region.

Inclusion

Inclusive mobility solutions across European prioritised areas.

MOVE

Mobility Opportunities Valuable to Everybody focused on co-creation to deliver unusual transport combinations.

Stronger Combined

Building sustainable rural public services in symbiosis with private mobility providers & citizens.

PAV

Planning for autonomous vehicles by local authorities

Scotland’s first autonomous bus service

Discover more about the pilot at Inverness Campus

Scotlands FASTER EV Charger sites

FASTER

A project between NI, ROI and Scotland to install 73x 50kW+ EV Charge Points. Supported by the EU INTERREG VA program, managed by the SEUPB

SPARA

A Northern Periphery & Arctic Programme project designed to address the challenges facing remote & peripheral airports.

eHUBS

Inverness City Region importing the European eMobility Hub concept to the Highlands

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The following opportunities could arise for passenger transport in the future:

  • Development of a common monitoring and evaluation system across the sector to provide a consistent understanding of outcomes enabled through passenger transport interventions.
  • Greater funding opportunities. Funding could include for new investment in vehicles, shelters, interchange and information, such as real time information.
  • A common set of quality/service standards for passenger transport around the region, to ensure that places receive at least minimum levels of passenger transport connectivity.
  • Scottish Planning Policy 17 gives the order of priority for personal travel: walking, then cycling, then public transport, then other motorised modes. This hierarchy should be reflected in land-use planning. Clear policy for development control should necessitate the take-up, monitoring and evaluation of interventions to address prospective gaps in the public transport network as a result of development.