Scottish Planning Assessment Part 1 Volume 1

Footnotes

1. A load factor is the ratio (measured as a percentage) between demand and the number of seats. It is normally measured at a specific location. A ratio of above 100% shows some crowding.
2. Source: Scottish Executive ‘Review of Scotland’s Cities’, 2002
3. A draft Order for new statutory RTPs was published in July 2005; if approved by Parliament this will come into force in November 2005.
4. South Lanarkshire is an amalgamation of the three previous Council Areas — Clydesdale, Hamilton and East Kilbride. Clydesdale falls into the South West RTP whilst the other two former council areas fall into the West RTP.
5. Modernising the Planning System White Paper, June 2005
6. Scotland’s Transport Future: The Transport White Paper, June 2004.
7. Source: Scottish Executive ‘Review of Scotland’s Cities’, 2002
8. City Region Boundaries study, Derek Halden Consultancy for the Scottish Executive, 2002 available online at: https://www.scotland.gov.uk/cru/kd01/blue/crbs-00.asp
9. Source: Scottish Executive ‘Review of Scotland’s Cities’, 2002
10. Source: Scottish Executive ‘Review of Scotland’s Cities’, 2002
11. i.e. excluding taxes less subsidies on products
12. Data zones are analogous to Super Output Areas (SOA) in England and Wales
13. PTEG report, ‘Rail in the Cities’, 2004
14. BAA Edinburgh Airport Surface Access Strategy
15. BAA Glasgow Airport Surface Access Strategy
16. Department for Transport
17. Rail Industry Monitor, 2004
18. Modern Railways. February 2005
19. We have disaggregated the diesel routes, because there is relatively little overlap between the stations. On other routes, there is too much overlap between individual services for more detailed analysis. For example, passengers boarding at Paisley Gilmour Street could board trains from several different origins, so we have presented this analysis as arrivals from South West Scotland.
20. LENNON ticket data does not cover all tickets sold in Scotland. Also, anecdotal evidence suggests that some leisure tickets, such as Flexipass, are used for non-leisure purposes.
21. Scottish Executive, 2002/03 data
22. Although after the Hatfield accident there has been some decline in traffic to some Scottish terminals such as Coatbridge.
23. Source: SRA’s analysis of ACTRAFF data
24. Capacity Utilisation Indices are used by Network Rail to identify the busiest routes. The CUI take account of signalling headways on the route, and the mixture of trains. The capacity used per hour is converted to a percentage, and offers an indicative assessment of line capacity.
25. Source: SRA’s analysis of ACTRAFF data
26. Source: SRA’s analysis of ACTRAFF data
27. Source: SRA’s analysis of ACTRAFF
28. Source: SRA’s analysis of ACRAFF data
29. These do not take account of congestion.