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1. Scotland's Transport Future, Scottish Executive, June 2004
2. Tackling Congestion: the Scottish Executive's consultation paper on fighting traffic congestion and pollution through road user and workplace parking charges, July 1999
3. The Integrated Transport Bill: The Executive's Proposals, consultation paper, February 2000
4. The Way Forward: Framework for Economic Development in Scotland, SE/2000/58: Laid before the Scottish Parliament by the Scottish Ministers, June 2000. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/economics/feds-00.asp
5. Forth Estuary Transport Authority Local Transport Strategy, April 2005.
http://www.feta.gov.uk/webpages/pdfs/LTS62674%20LTS.pdf
6. Other issues, such as noise, severance, and impacts on landscape values, although important, were deemed to be outside the scope of this Review.
7. For discussion of CO2 issues and the tolled bridges, please see Phase One report, Chapter 6.1.
8. For example, see Centre for Transport and Society (2004) Evidence-Base Review - Attitudes to Road Pricing. Report for the Department for Transport, referencing Stopher (2004)
9. Tolled Bridges Study: Phase One TMfS Model runs, MVA, September 2004. It should be noted that "Congestion on Scottish Trunk Roads 2003", published by the Executive, shows that reductions in speed are experienced at the Erskine Bridge; these are caused not by the volume of traffic but by the toll booths
10. Tolled Bridges Study: Phase One TMfS Model runs, MVA, September 2004
11. Tolled Bridges Study: Phase Two - Erskine Bridge, MVA, July 2005
12. Tolled Bridges Study: Phase Two - Erskine Bridge, MVA, July 2005 - this indicates that flows on the Kingston Bridge increase and decrease at different times of the day, but no increase is more than 100 cars per hour
13. SESTRAN Integrated Transport Corridor Study: Queensferry Cross Forth Corridor Report, June 2005. http://www.sestran.org.uk/projects/queensferry_corridor.html
14. FETA is examining as part of its Local Transport Strategy (Forth Estuary Transport Authority Local Transport Strategy, April 2005. http://www.feta.gov.uk/webpages/pdfs/LTS62674%20LTS.pdf) the possibility of increasing cross-Forth capacity through the construction of a new multi-modal crossing at Queensferry. This is beyond the scope of this Review.
15. Forth Estuary Transport Authority Local Transport Strategy, April 2005
16. SESTRAN Integrated Transport Corridor Study: Queensferry Cross Forth Corridor Report, June 2005. http://www.sestran.org.uk/projects/queensferry_corridor.html
17. SESTRAN Integrated Transport Corridor Study: Queensferry Cross Forth Corridor Report, June 2005. http://www.sestran.org.uk/projects/queensferry_corridor.html
18. Overview of Measures to Increase Car Occupancy over the Forth Road Bridge, Scott Wilson, August 2005
19. Forth Road Bridge Short Term Measures Study, July 1992
20. For example, see Centre for Transport and Society (2004) Evidence-Base Review - Attitudes to Road Pricing. Report for the Department for Transport.
21. Tackling Congestion: the Scottish Executive's consultation paper on fighting traffic congestion and pollution through road user and workplace parking charges, July 1999
22. The Integrated Transport Bill: The Executive's Proposals consultation paper, February 2000
23. Feasibility Study of Road Pricing in the UK, Department for Transport, July 2004
24. The Severn and Dartford crossings saw a new concessionaire take charge of existing infrastructure, but in both those cases the purpose of this was to facilitate the construction of an extra crossing
25. Modernising the Planning System. Scottish Executive, June 2005. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/06/27113519/35231
26. Scottish Transport Statistics No. 24: 2005 Edition
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/08/25100154/01557
27. Modernising the Planning System. Scottish Executive, June 2005.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/06/27113519/35231
28. Scottish Transport Statistics No. 24: 2005 Edition
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/08/25100154/01557
29. "Development of a performance-based surfacing specification for high performance asphalt pavements", prepared for the Highways Agency, Quarry Products Association and Refined Bitumen Association - TRL Report 456. First published 2001 - ISSN 0968-4107
30. Based on comparison with similar work at Forth
31. European Directive on the Interoperability of Electronic Road Toll Systems in the Community (Directive 2004/52/EC)
32. Directive 2004/52/EC
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