Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Road Safety: A Lifelong Learning Process
- 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.
Panel: The Route to Net Zero – Tackling Operational Carbon in Scotland's Road Network
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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?
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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.
Scottish Transport Skills Challenge – A Call to Action
- 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.
Speakers
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Hugh Gillies Director of Roads Transport Scotland
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Nicola Bell Group Manager - Traffic and Road Safety (Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability) Glasgow City Council
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Achille Fonzone Professor of Transport Analysis and Planning Edinburgh Napier University
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Mark Baynham Committee Member Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE)
Active Travel – Connected Clackmannanshire
- 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.
High-Vis and High Impact: Engineering and Community Action In Active Travel
- 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.
Public EV Charging: Electrifying Scotland’s Roads
- 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.
Building a Net Zero Fleet Depot at Polmadie
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Keynote: Major Projects Update on A9 Dualling
- 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.
Climate-Ready Roads
- 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.
Ten-Minute Tech: Castle Surveys
Discover Castle Surveys’ Mobile Mapping:
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See how this cutting-edge technology is transforming the way we capture and manage road data.
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Reduce risk by surveying from the safety of a vehicle instead of the roadside.
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Collect highly accurate data in a fraction of the time compared to traditional methods.
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Learn how one dataset can support a wide range of applications, from asset management to infrastructure analysis.
Inclusive Travel and Women’s 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.
How Road Condition Monitoring Can Better Feed into Maintenance Planning
- 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.
Ten-Minute Tech: Cortec
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.
Decoding Digital Roads
- Exploring the vision for digital roads and discussing how strategic transformation is revolutionising network operations.