Annual report & accounts 2024-25

  1. Introduction
  2. Highlights
  3. Education & training
  4. Monitoring cycling, road safety and connecting people
  5. Access to bikes, cycle parking & storage
  6. Transport Planning & Engineering
    1. About Transport Planning & Engineering
    2. Case study: Dreel Burn Path upgrade, Anstruther, Fife
    3. Map of TP&E project locations
  7. Organisation

Transport Planning & Engineering

About Transport Planning & Engineering

2024-25 has been a year of continued achievement for Transport Planning & Engineering (TP&E), with four construction projects delivered on the ground, with a growing portfolio of designs to support positive change through community-led active travel infrastructure.

With a focused team, TP&E continues to work across Scotland, providing support, advice and direction to external partners, community groups and voluntary associations seeking to deliver active travel opportunities. 

Work continues to cover the whole of Scotland from Perthshire to Dumfriesshire, with rural active travel and urban design projects aiming to make it easier for ever more people to enjoy cycling, walking and wheeling.

TP&E remains focused on:

  • Design and delivery of rural projects to support the modal shift from vehicle-orientated places to people-focused places.
  • Consulting and promoting active travel routes to rural communities to assist in the school run, impacting on modal shift in these areas and reducing the isolation that some rural communities can experience.
  • Strengthening partnership working with local authorities and community groups to deliver fit for purpose sustainable travel assets which follow desire lines, to create direct and convenient routes. 
  • Informing wider audiences on design complexities, challenges and good practice that can be found in delivering in this sector.

In 2024-25 we: 

  • Completed the second phase of a 4km route near Thornhill in Dumfries and Galloway, and continued detailed design support for upcoming phases.
  • Completed the technical design stage for the full 16km length of the Loch Earn Railway Path route in Perthshire and Stirlingshire.
  • Designed phase 2.2 of the 1km of track circuit Clyde Cycle Park in Cambuslang.
  • Construction of phase 3 of the Hunters Hall Park Path upgrade in Niddrie, Edinburgh: a long-awaited piece of work to complete a path network for cycling and walking in the area.
  • Delivered a community path in Anstruther, Fife, to provide a new, fully-accessible path down to the Dreel Burn - a local wildlife haven.
  • Completed design of phases 1C and 2A of the Bridge of Earn to Newburgh project along the A912 Baiglie Straight and through Abernethy.
  • Delivered drainage works on NCN 75 within King George V Park in Edinburgh to reduce flooding risk and enable continued access through rainy periods.
  • Established a concept design for phase 4 and a technical design for phase 1 of the Comrie to Baird’s Monument route near Crieff. The route follows the old railway line and so will take walkers and cyclists away from the busy A85 in Perthshire.
  • Completed rectification works on a bank slip that damaged the NCN 7 route just north of Dunkeld, re-enabling safe access to the route and allowing for a long-term design solution to be considered.

 

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