SCOTIA-FORGING A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER DRIVER INFORMATION

SCOTIA is one of the first public-private initiatives in Europe aimed specifically at improving the quality of driver information. Led by the Automobile Association, with the active encouragement of the Scottish Office, SCOTIA began in 1994 to bring together private motoring and transport companies and associations and local, regional, and national governments to take advantage of the improved traffic data soon to be available in Scotland as a result of a major investment in traffic monitoring infrastructure. The real-time data received and processed by this equipment can be used not only to manage traffic, but it can also be delivered to drivers using existing and future advanced transport technology coming on stream. The questions facing the Scottish Office were: How can we best get this data to drivers should the state do it? or Should we leave it all to private enterprise? The answer seemed to be a public-private institution, and SCOTIA emerged as the model for such cooperation. This paper describes the structure of SCOTIA, its membership, the provision of the SCOTIA agreement, and the financial and control arrangements proposed for it. It also highlights the relationship between SCOTIA and the traffic authorities and describes how the day-to-day operation of the new arrangements are planned to work. It also outlines how SCOTIA is expected to move from a development project phase into a full commercial operation phase. A section also deals with the practical as well as institutional problems that a public-private partnership raises, and suggests some solutions to them.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Five volumes of papers and one volume of abstracts comprise the published set of conference materials.
• Corporate Authors:

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• Authors:
  • Hoffmann, S
• Conference:
  • Steps Forward. Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress
  • Location: Yokohama, Japan
  • Date: 1995-11-9 to 1995-11-11
• Publication Date: 1995-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 2274

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver information systems; Highway traffic control; Improvements; Information processing; Intelligent transportation systems; Public private partnerships; Real time control
• Geographic Terms: England
• Old TRIS Terms: Real-time systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00724490
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Volume 5
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 2 1996 12:00AM