Executive Summary

The Environmental Noise (Scotland) Regulations 2006 require the Scottish Government, on a five‑year cycle, to produce strategic noise maps and, based on those results, prepare a Transport Noise Action Plan. This report summarises the findings from the public consultation on The Draft Transport Noise Action Plan (TNAP) 2024 to 2028 and sets out Transport Scotland’s response and next steps.

Respondents broadly supported the draft TNAP and welcomed its strategic direction. Key themes included the following.

• Widening the scope of the prioritisation process to include lived experience, draw in other noise sources, and include peak and night time noise.
• Focus on transport noise at source, and the principles of the sustainable transport hierarchy in the National Transport Strategy, while reducing noise emissions from the fleet, and reducing the need to travel.
• Align mitigation measures with existing polices and focus on providing more information on the process to stakeholders.
• Include noise management in future policy considerations, including developing a broader soundscape strategy.
• Improve support for stakeholders and partners, including Regional Transport Partnerships, freight organisation, and sustainable transport groups, to work together on better places and managing noise pollution.
• Need to capture the ability of current technology to allow environmental noise pollution to be monitored in a more dynamic manner, and in shorter timeframes.

Transport Scotland will continue to strengthen alignment with health, planning, and decarbonisation policy; enhance evidence and modelling approaches; improve clarity in roles, monitoring, and reporting; and ensure noise mitigation is considered early in project development.