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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

10:00

Ministerial Keynote

10:00 - 10:30
10:35

Road Safety: A Lifelong Learning Process

10:35 - 10:55 Safety
  • Adopting a cradle-to-grave approach.
  • Making the right information available, at the right time.
  • Working closely with the education sector.
  • Using proven behavioural change models.
11:00

Panel: The Route to Net Zero – Tackling Operational Carbon in Scotland's Road Network

11:00 - 11:40 Net Zero Maintenance
  • How can we leverage digitalisation and data-driven asset management to optimise operational efficiency, minimise energy consumption from street lighting and other assets, and enable more sustainable maintenance strategies?

  • This discussion will explore how government and industry partners can implement a unified strategy for decarbonisation, share best practices, and accelerate the transition to a net-zero road network.

11:45

Scottish Transport Skills Challenge – A Call to Action

11:45 - 12:35 Skills
  • Bringing together stakeholders from across the sector to discuss how to break down barriers to employment in the sector.
  • An opportunity to share and maintain live insight into current and future skills demand across the industry.
  • An interactive session designed to gather audience feedback and shape a skills-focused steering group that will continue collaboration beyond the event.
12:40

Active Travel – Connected Clackmannanshire

12:40 - 13:00 Sustainable Mobility
  • How we have brought Active Travel Strategy to life, our priorities and ‘Connected Clackmannanshire’.
  • Using a visual and action-based approach to delivery and providing vision and momentum.
  • Collaborating with stakeholders: what works, what to plan for, how to overcome challenges.
  • Key successes, pressures, problems, and solutions.
14:00

High-Vis and High Impact: Engineering and Community Action In Active Travel

14:00 - 14:20 Sustainable Mobility
  • Presented by the University of Strathclyde's Active Mobility Hub.
  • Exploring how engineering, behaviour change, and grassroots action intersect.
  • Showcasing new research into community-led initiatives like school bike buses and the role of transport and highways professionals in facilitating them.
14:25

Ten-Minute Tech: Meon

14:25 - 14:35

Speakers

14:40

Public EV Charging: Electrifying Scotland’s Roads

14:40 - 15:00 EV Infrastructure
  • Overview of targets for phasing out petrol and diesel cars and a summary of progress against these targets.
  • Summary of work to date to develop EV charging infrastructure across Scotland to enable electrification.
  • Snapshot of work to deliver approximately 30,000 public charge points across Scotland by 2030.
  • Conclude with a summary of next steps and the key focus of work over the next few years.
15:05

Building a Net Zero Fleet Depot at Polmadie

15:05 - 15:25 EV Infrastructure Net Zero

Thursday, November 27, 2025

10:00

Keynote: Major Projects Update on A9 Dualling

10:00 - 10:30 Major Projects
  • The A9 Dualling will upgrade 83 miles of single carriageway between Perth and Inverness, making it one of Scotland’s largest ever transport infrastructure programmes.
  • Hear from Gemma Patterson, Head of A9 Dualling Programme Delivery, as she provides major project updates. 
10:35

Climate-Ready Roads

10:35 - 10:55
  • Our climate is changing, and our roads must adapt. Explore ICE's strategy for building a network that can withstand future heatwaves, floods, and other extreme weather.
11:00

Ten-Minute Tech: Castle Surveys

11:00 - 11:10

Discover Castle SurveysMobile Mapping:

  • See how this cutting-edge technology is transforming the way we capture and manage road data.

  • Reduce risk by surveying from the safety of a vehicle instead of the roadside.

  • Collect highly accurate data in a fraction of the time compared to traditional methods.

  • Learn how one dataset can support a wide range of applications, from asset management to infrastructure analysis.

11:15

Inclusive Travel and Women’s Safety

11:15 - 11:35 Safety
  • This session explores the unique safety challenges and perceptions of risk that shape how women experience and navigate road networks, impacting their daily travel decisions.
11:40

How Road Condition Monitoring Can Better Feed into Maintenance Planning

11:40 - 12:15 Maintenance Resilience
  • Explore a potential transition to PAS 2161 and its implications for asset management.
  • Discuss how modern condition monitoring supports smarter, data-driven maintenance planning.
  • Consider how to balance backlog repair with the need to protect road assets from climate impacts.
  • Debate what action is needed now to ensure a resilient and sustainable network for future generations.
  • Hear insights from those shaping policy and delivery at Transport Scotland and SCOTS.
12:25

Ten-Minute Tech: Cortec

12:25 - 12:40

Discover Cortec’s MCI® Technology:

  • See how Migrating Corrosion Inhibitors (MCI®) extend the service life of reinforced concrete infrastructure.
  • Protect steel reinforcement inside concrete to create stronger, more durable roads and bridges.
  • Reduce maintenance needs and overall lifecycle costs with advanced corrosion protection.
  • Support sustainability goals by building infrastructure that lasts longer and performs better.
14:00

Decoding Digital Roads

14:00 - 14:20 Digital Roads
  • Exploring the vision for digital roads and discussing how strategic transformation is revolutionising network operations.
14:25

Panel: Scotland's Digital Road Journey: From Policy to Pavement

14:25 - 15:05 Digital Roads