Maintaining efficiency is Scots’ ambition

10 October 2007
 
Transport for Scotland is pledging that its two new ‘third generation’ maintenance deals will allow it to more than double highways efficiency savings.

Dr Malcolm Reed, chief executive of the Scottish Government’s one-year-old transport agency, claimed ‘substantial progress’ had been made in the first 12 months, with Scotland’s ‘greatest number of transport projects under way for more than a decade’.

The two new term maintenance term contracts let last April allowed Transport Scotland to make £9M in savings, by requiring improvements, including ‘a new, cutting-edge winter maintenance approach’. Extending the changes – including, for instance, a requirement for pre-wetted salt treatment and thermal maps – to the other two contracts for maintaining the agency’s 3,432km network would produce efficiencies of £19M a year.

A spokeswoman highlighted the fact that the savings would represent 13.6% of the total contract value of £140M. In 2006/07, however, the bulk of Transport Scotland’s £26M efficiency savings were achieved by improvements in the operation of the First Scot- Rail franchise (£14M). Replacing multiple concessionary fares schemes with a single, national scheme saved a further £5M.

Transport Scotland’s tangible assets – which also include 1,900 bridges – increased in value from £12.8bn to £13.5bn, mainly down to its highway network being revalued to factor in construction inflation. Dr Reed promised to ‘continue to work hard to deliver a transport network that Scotland deserves’, which the annual report highlights includes its aim of improving trunk road condition by managing the four maintenance deals.

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