Active Travel and Sustainable Transport Behaviour Change Strategy
In 2024/2025 Transport Scotland funded Scotland’s seven Regional Transport Partnerships to increase the number of journeys made by walking, wheeling or cycling and public transport rather than by private car via their People and Place Programme.
- Planned and implemented active travel infrastructure improvement
- Towns with active travel masterplans and areas defined as travel to work areas with a contained labour market
- Towns with higher populations in each region: Inverness, Elgin, Kirkwall, Stornoway, Oban and Lochgilphead
- Areas where there are pockets of multiple deprivation: such as Dunoon, Rothesay, Alness, Balintore, Inverness, Oban and Wick
- Smaller towns and settlements to make walking, wheeling and cycling safer and to look at ways to integrate walking, wheeling and cycling with public transport
- Rural areas and smaller settlements to improve road safety, vehicle driver behaviour and use of shared spaces to create a network of Quiet Routes for walking, wheeling and cycling and using public transport between communities
2025/2026 Activities
From an overall budget of £23.45M we have been allocated £2.48M.
Local Delivery Partners £744,463
Smart Travel Choices £185,000
Transport Integration £600,000
Hi-Bike £313,804
Fort William Way Finding Project £46,000
Behaviour Change Officers £30,000
Project Management £472,077
To be allocated £79,926
2024/2025 Activities
In 2024/2025 our budget was £1.6M. We targeted HITRANS’ own resources for transport integration, cycle parking, and promotion of active and sustainable travel.
Mobility Hubs £504,500
Local Delivery Partners £359,370
Smart Travel Choices £228,500
Transport Integration £345,000
Access to Bikes £165,816
Project Management £76,000
