Economic, Environmental and Social Impacts of Changes in Maintenance Spend on Local Roads in Scotland

Appendix D Details of Scotland's Local Road Network

D.1 Classification of Scottish Local Authorities

The 32 Local Authorities in Scotland were classified into the types shown in Table D.1 in accordance with earlier work by SCOTS. These types were used to characterise the Local Authorities when scaling the results from the 8 sample Authorities to the entire network. For the analyses in this study, the Authorities have been assumed to be rural, urban, semi-urban or cities. The Authorities in Table D.1 classed as 'islands' have been assumed to be rural for this study. Note that Glasgow City does not classify any of its roads as rural. There was therefore no analysis of rural roads for Glasgow.

Table D.1 Classification of Local Authority types

Authority	Classification	Authority	Classification
Aberdeen City	City	Inverclyde	Urban
Aberdeenshire	Rural	Midlothian	Semi-Urban
Angus	Rural	North Ayrshire	Semi-Urban
Argyll & Bute	Rural	North Lanarkshire	Urban
City of Edinburgh	City	Orkney Islands	Islands
Clackmannanshire	Urban	Perth & Kinross	Rural
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	Islands	Renfrewshire	Urban
Dumfries and Galloway	Rural	Scottish Borders	Rural
Dundee City	City	Shetland Islands	Islands
East Ayrshire	Semi-Urban	South Ayrshire	Semi-Urban
East Dunbartonshire	Urban	South Lanarkshire	Semi-Urban
East Lothian	Semi-Urban	Stirling	Semi-Urban
East Renfrewshire	Urban	The Highland	Rural
Falkirk	Urban	The Moray	Rural
Fife	Semi-Urban	West Dunbartonshire	Urban
Glasgow City	City	West Lothian	Semi-Urban

Table D.2 shows the breakdown of the 2009/10 budgets for all the Local Road network and for each of the sample Authorities.

Table D.2 Summary of budgets - outturn costs for 2009/10

Budget Head	All Network	Aberdeenshire	Dumfries and Galloway	City of Edinburgh	Fife	Glasgow City	Highland	North Lanarkshire	South Ayrshire
Capital (£m)
Traffic Calming	2,987	609	0	0	1,094	442	51	0	204
Road Safety	8,521	497	290	1,110	109	1,478	0	0	43
New Road Schemes	11,757	0	0	2,779	0	0	1,857	0	686
Lighting	20,629	1,032	445	1,433	4,151	586	705	2,054	827
Structural Maintenance	109,906	0	4,187	17,099	5,066	0	5,585	4,567	136
Other	34,477	11,525	2,055	3,200	0	0	2,997	0	684
Total Capital	188,277	13,663	6,977	25,621	10,420	2,506	11,195	6,621	2,580
Revenue (£m)
Road Construction	1,370	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	609
Structural Maintenance	65,432	0	4,440	6,375	9,005	3,317	1,290	1,629	167
Environmental Maintenance	13,950	980	425	0	538	2,102	1,151	542	227
Winter Maintenance	92,261	8,263	1,795	3,309	4,441	3,973	7,283	5,209	836
Lighting	53,449	2,976	1,033	5,166	1,508	5,495	1,429	5,856	1,318
Safety Maintenance and Emergency Patching	33,880	3,331	485	2,973	2,363	1,253	5,737	881	134
Routine Repairs	42,895	5,104	1,166	743	1,991	4,929	1,286	9,614	2,043
Total Revenue	303,236	20,654	9,344	18,566	19,846	21,069	18,176	23,731	5,334
TOTAL (£m)	491,513	34,317	16,321	44,187	30,266	23,575	29,371	30,352	7,914

Source: (Audit Scotland, 2011)