Annual report & accounts 2025-26

  1. Introduction
  2. Highlights
  3. Education & training
  4. Monitoring everyday 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: Penpont to Thornhill, Nith Bridge
    3. Map of TP&E project locations
  7. Organisation

Transport Planning & Engineering

In 2025-26, Transport Planning & Engineering (TP&E) celebrated 20 years of supporting positive change through community–led active travel infrastructure, delivering two design projects and bringing five other projects to construction. 

With a focused and dedicated team, TP&E continues to work across Scotland, providing expertise and support 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 2025-26 we:

  • Completed phases 6A and & 7A of the Loch Earn Railway Path, utilising a dismantled railway route to install a further 1.5km of accessible shared-use path.  
  • Completed construction on phase 2.2 of the 1km of track circuit Clyde Cycle Park in Cambuslang which is now open as a training facility. 
  • Delivered phase 1B2 of the 4km Penpont to Thornhill route, which completed works across the historic Nith Bridge. We now working on design of phase 1C which will connect Nith Bridge to Thornhill.  
  • Restored the weather-damaged gabion wall at Dreelside in Anstruther, by installing an improved retaining wall solution. 
  • Installed a 330m route between Oakbank and MacRosty Park in Crieff, to connect the park to nearby communities. 
  • Progressed concept designs for the long-distance route from Kirkton Farm to Crianlarich which, once built, will improve connectivity between the village centre and rail station.  
  • Completed detailed design for works on a water-damaged bank slip on the NCN 7 route just north of Dunkeld, which once built will enable safe access to the route.

 

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