Publication - Advice and guidance

Just transition for the transport sector: a discussion paper

Published: 20 June 2023
Directorate: Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Part of: Business, industry and innovation, Economy, Energy, +6 more … Environment and climate change, Equality and rights, Farming and rural, Public sector, Transport, Work and skills
ISBN: 9781805259435

This discussion paper is intended to support engagement on a just transition for the transport sector. Building on this engagement, a draft targeted action plan and route map (late 23/24) will outline the key steps to delivering a fair transition for the sector.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1. Section B. Results – Net Sources of Scottish Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Scottish Greenhouse Gas Statistics 2020 – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2. Transport Scotland, Reducing care use for a healthier, fairer and greener Scotland, A route map to achieve a 20 per cent reduction in car kilometres by 2030 (transport.gov.scot)

3. Transport Scotland, National Transport Strategy, https://www.transport.gov.scot/media/47052/national-transport-strategy. pdf”national-transport-strategy.pdf p.17

4. Ibid, p.18

5. Transport and Poverty in Scotland - Report of the Poverty and Inequality Commission - Poverty & Inequality Commission (povertyinequality.scot)

6. A regressive tax is a tax that is applied uniformly regardless of income

7. Resolution Foundation, Where the Rubber Hits the Road, Where the rubber hits the road – The Inquiry (resolutionfoundation.org)

8. Social outcomes of energy use in the United Kingdom: Household energy footprints and their links to well-being – ScienceDirect

9. The Climate Change Act (Scotland) 2009 sets out Just Transition Principles. These principles recognise the importance of taking action to reduce net Scottish emissions of greenhouse gases - in a way which “develops and maintains social consensus through engagement with workers, trade unions, communities, non-governmental organisations, representatives of the interests of business and industry and such other persons as Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.”

10. Decarbonising the Scottish transport sector | Transport Scotland

11. Swales are linear grass covered depressions which lead surface water overland from the drained surface to a storage or discharge system, typically using road verges.

12. Laura Walker Report NTS2 Delivery Plan – Social and Equality Impact Assessment (SEQIA) 2022-04-08 (transport.gov.scot)

13. Demand management refers to strategies to reduce demand for a certain mode of transport, or redistribute this demand towards other modes.

14. Sixth Carbon Budget – Climate Change Committee (theccc.org.uk) Surface Transport sector summary.

15. Scottish Household Survey, 2019, reported in Scottish Transport Statistics no.39, 2020. Scottish Transport Statistics No. 39 2020 Edition | Transport Scotland18 Transport Scotland. Disability and Transport, findings from the SHS, 2021. 19 Douglas et al. Health and Transport: A Guide, Scottish Health and Inequality Impact Assessment Network, 2018

16. Last mile delivery in Scotland (climatexchange.org.uk)

17. Last mile delivery in Scotland (climatexchange.org.uk)

18. Scottish Transport Statistics 2022

19. Scottish Government’s evidence synthesis of intersectionality defines it as including ‘a recognition that people are shaped by simultaneous membership of multiple interconnected social categories, the interaction between multiple social categories occurs within a context of connected systems and structures of power, with a recognition of inequality of power being key to intersectionality, and structural inequalities, reflected as relative disadvantage and privilege, are the outcome of interconnected social categories, power relations and contexts’. Using intersectionality to understand structural inequality in Scotland: evidence synthesis – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

20. Women’s and girls’ views and experiences of personal safety when using public transport | Transport Scotland

21. TTC Safety Guide

22. About smart | Smart and integrated ticketing survey 2023 | Transport Scotland This survey ran until 14 May 2023

23. Smart Transport insights, “Is sharing the answer to pollution prayers?”

24. HPS Website – WHO publishes report on health and environmental benefits of active travel (scot.nhs.uk)

25. Cycling Framework for Active Travel – A Plan for Everyday Cycling (transport.gov.scot)

26. National Transport Strategy (NTS2) Monitoring and Evaluation Baseline Report, p.23

27. National Transport Strategy (NTS2) Monitoring and Evaluation Baseline Report, p.20

28. Soaring bus fares ‘devastating’ for passengers – BBC News

29. Summary – A changing nation: how Scotland will thrive in a digital world – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

30. GDP Quarterly National Accounts: 2022 Quarter 3 (July to September) – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

31. Export statistics Scotland: 2019 – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)