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HITRANS (Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership) is a statutory body that works to pursue improvements to transport services and infrastructure in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Our partners are:
The Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 established statutory Regional Transport Partnerships to take forward the initiatives developed since 1996.
One partnership covers Shetland; Arran and the Cumbraes are in Strathclyde Partnership for Transport; and the Highland and Islands Partnership covers Orkney, Moray, Highland, the Western Isles, and Argyll and Bute. The first task of these partnerships is to prepare Regional Transport Strategies. These strategies will set the framework for investment in strategic transport infrastructure and services for the next 15 to 20 years.
HITRANS is tasked with pursuing improvements to the strategic transport services and infrastructure. Investment in the region's infrastructure and services will allow it to make a full and effective contribution to national economic life.
In particular, this will support the development of key and emerging sectors, such as renewable energy, tourism, food and drink and the knowledge economy. It will also enhance the region's place competitiveness by helping to attract and retain people with skills, through making it a better place in which to live and work.
A principal objective of HITRANS is to prepare - and keep up to date - the Regional Transport Strategy which identifies common issues, builds consensus on the ways to tackle these issues, and sets out the priorities for future investment in the strategic network. The strategy is therefore a framework against which policy initiatives and projects can be developed by the partners.
It also seeks to promote the region's strategic priorities as policy develops at the national level. The regional transport dimension is growing in importance in Scotland, and there are similar partnerships in the other regions.
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