AGM June 5th 2007
Transport Scotland
On the 5th of June 2007
Roy Brannen Head of Network Operations at Transport Scotland gave a presentation to assembled branch members
and guests at the Garfield House Hotel in Glasgow.
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AGM June 5th 2007
Speakers
Transport Scotland
Roy Brannen Head of Network Operations
Transport Scotland
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Transport Scotland
Roy Brannen gave a detailed talk on the structure and remit of Transport Scotland, covering the following points;
- 5 million people in Scotland use the road, rail, bus and ferry network.
- 12,500 roadworks every year in Scotland
- Railway investment
- Malcolm Reed, Chief Executive
- European Agency links
- Organisational Structure
- Network breakdown
- Key Objectives
- reduction of disruption
- information dissemination
- national conrtol system
- policing
- Intelligent Transport Systems
- V.M.S
- loops
- roadside telephones
- gantry queue detection systems
- Action Plan
- Journey time monitoring technology
- Integrated Transport Management Centre
- Trunk road incident support Service
- 4 specialist vehicles
- first response
- attending 81% of incidents within 20 minutes
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