Aberdeenshire Council Passenger Transport Strategy

We asked

The Council is reviewing its current Passenger Transport Strategy, published in 2014.

The updated Passenger Transport Strategy, which will apply from 2025 to 2035, aims to set out the Council’s objectives for Aberdeenshire passenger transport services and incorporates the Council’s general policies for public and other passenger transport. The Passenger Transport Strategy Survey, which was active from the 29^th of July 2024 until the 1^st of September 2024, sought the views of individuals and organisations on the draft outcomes, general objectives and transport objectives proposed in the draft strategy document.

In our survey we asked if:

• Respondents agreed or disagreed with three proposed Strategy Outcomes
• Respondents agreed or disagreed with four proposed Strategy Objectives
• Respondents agreed or disagreed with ten proposed Transport Objectives
• Respondents agreed or disagreed with seven key tasks included in a proposed Action Plan
• Respondents had any comments about the 63 proposed Policies or the strategy wording.

You said

• About two thirds of respondents agreed with all three of the proposed Strategy Outcomes. 91% agreed with the outcome to ‘improve life opportunities and the quality of life for residents of Aberdeenshire, through appropriate passenger transport provision’.
• About two thirds of respondents agreed with all four of the proposed Strategy Objectives. 91% agreed with the objective to “address the barriers which stop people travelling by bus or prevent people from using the bus more often”.
• About two thirds of respondents agreed with all ten of the proposed Transport Objectives. 96% agreed with the objective to “attract investment to enhance transport connections between our towns and villages”.
• About two thirds of the respondents agreed with all seven of the proposed key tasks included in the proposed Action Plan. The highest level of agreement was 77% for the proposed action “Bus Services Network - Review the public transport network in conjunction with implementation of a North-East of Scotland Bus Services Improvement”.
• Over 500 individual comments regarding the policies and wording of the draft strategy were submitted.

We Will

We will use the feedback above to help shape the development of the Council’s 2025 Passenger Transport Strategy. We will provide a further update once the strategy has been completed.