Review of the NTS Delivery Plan

3.1 Objective

NTS sets out a 20 year vision for Scotland’s transport system and details the key themes and policies that will enable it to deliver against the wider social, economic and environmental objectives of the SG. NTS interventions support the delivery of key national objectives including those contained within the National Performance Framework and Scotland’s Economic Strategy.

The overall rationale for intervention within NTS is to provide adequate support and regulation to produce the optimum transport outcome. A ‘do nothing’ approach would not enable the SG to shape the transport system in a manner necessary to address key issues such as climate change, transport poverty or economic competitiveness. The current and emerging challenges described in Chapter 3 of NTS provide a reasoned basis for the policies set out within, stating clearly that:

“If this Strategy is to be a catalyst for change and deliver our Vision, Priorities and Outcomes, it must successfully tackle the challenges”

3.2 Rationale for Intervention

The NTS Delivery Plan 2020-2022 is the delivery mechanism of NTS and therefore the rationale for it is aligned with that of the NTS. Each individual action should flow from each strategic policy and provide the right level of support or regulation required to meet the policy objective.

In order to ensure that actions contained under each strategic policy are proportionate to meeting the need and do not impose undue levels of regulation or unfair levels of support, a BRIA assessment is required.

Section 4 of this report provides an initial assessment of these actions against the criteria contained within the BRIA toolkit.