1. Regional Transport and the Economy Iain Docherty Professor of Public Policy and Governance University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School Iain.Docherty@glasgow.ac.uk

2. Structure of presentation First principles: what is transport for? The Edinburgh City Region’s choices What to do? Some conclusions

3. First principles: what is transport for?

4. Reality Checks

5. Transport economics 101 Transport is a derived demand

6. Transport economics 101 Transport investment is more likely to move economic activity around rather than stimulate genuine growth

7. Transport economics 101 Transport investment is more likely to move economic activity around rather than stimulate genuine growth (SACTRA, Eddington et al)

8. But… “transport creates the utilities of place” White and Senior (1983)

9. … or, in other words, we need to ask… What kinds of places do we want to live in?

10. The Edinburgh City Region’s choices

11. A very short lesson in transport history

17. ‘Rubber’ Edinburgh

20. What kind of place do you want Edinburgh to be in future?

21. Edinburgh’s competition

25. … Edinburgh

26. What to do?

27. Where are we now? Transport investment since devolution has been overwhelmingly dominated by *(inter-)regional* investment M80, M8, Queensferry Crossing, Airdrie – Bathgate Line, Borders Railway, EGIP etc etc etc *Very* little attention paid to urban connections This is the obvious area where the SEStran area needs to catch up

28. Provocation If you want to be a first class European city region then start acting like one

29. Provocation If you want to be a first class European city region then start acting like one (in transport terms)

30. … embrace changing connectivity demands

31. Dutch and/or German streetscape

32. Henniker.org.uk

35. Some conclusions

36. None of this is conceptually difficult (!) Eddington was right! We do need a ‘sophisticated policy mix’ of new infrastructure, *but also* integrated planning, and difficult things like the right pricing (and possibly demand restraint) Decide what kind of place you want and work out how to get there The stark truth is that *everybody* else is rebalancing between the car and other modes *quickly*

39. Regional Transport and the Economy Iain Docherty Professor of Public Policy and Governance University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School Iain.Docherty@glasgow.ac.uk