Monitoring and Modelling

Nestrans regularly monitors travel patterns to understand long-term trends across the region and their impacts on the Regional Transport Strategy. As part of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, additional monitoring is being conducted through regular travel surveys.

Nestrans manage and maintain the Aberdeen Sub Area Model (ASAM), which is a multi-modal strategic model that is used to appraise and inform regional policies and projects.  It also provides strategic forecast data for the North East.  Access to ASAM information can be requested from the Transport Scotland Latis website as detailed below.

View Most Recent Travel Survey Results
View Most Recent RTS Monitoring Report

    North East Transport Behaviour and Attitude Surveys

    As part of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic Nestrans commissioned consultants Systra, to carry out a series of 10 travel surveys (every four weeks) to try and gauge how people in the North East of Scotland are traveling and how they expect to travel in the future, as well as finding out their current issues and concerns. These surveys are available below and will help us to inform and plan for travel and transport in the area, in the short to medium term during the Covid-19 restrictions and as we move forward out of them. Nestrans have secured grant funding from Paths for All, Smarter Choices, Smarter Places Open Fund, to help pay for these surveys.

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    1st Survey
    Report 1: Executive Summary
    Report 1: Full Report
    Report 1: Technical Appendix

    2nd Survey
    Report 2: Executive Summary
    Report 2: Full Report
    Report 2 Technical Appendix

    3rd Survey
    Report 3: Executive Summary
    Report 3: Final Report
    Report 3: Technical Appendix

    4th Survey
    Report 4: Executive Summary
    Report 4: Final Report
    Report 4: Technical Appendix

    5th Survey
    Report 5: Executive Summary
    Report 5: Final Report
    Report 5: Technical Appendix

    6th Survey
    Report 6: Executive Summary
    Report 6: Final Report
    Report 6: Technical Appendix

    7th Survey
    Report 7: Executive Summary
    Report 7: Final Report
    Report 7: Technical Appendix

    8th Survey
    Report 8: Executive Summary
    Report 8: Final Report
    Report 8: Technical Appendix

    9th Survey
    Report 9: Executive Summary
    Report 9: Final Report
    Report 9: Technical Appendix

    10th Survey
    Report 10: Executive Summary
    Report 10: Final Report
    Report 10: Technical Appendix

    Final Report
    Final Report for first 10 surveys

    11th Survey
    Report 11: Executive Summary
    Report 11: Final Report
    Report 11: Technical Appendix

    12th Survey
    Report 12: Executive Summary
    Report 12: Final Report
    Report 12: Technical Appendix

    13th Survey
    Report 13: Executive Summary
    Report 13: Final Report
    Report 13: Technical Appendix

    14th Survey
    Report 14: Executive Summary
    Report 14: Final Report
    Report 14: Technical Appendix

    15th Survey
    Report 15: Executive Summary
    Report 15: Final Report
    Report 15: Technical Appendix

    16th Survey
    Report 16: Technical Appendix
    Report 16: Final Report
    Report 16: Executive Summary

    Final Report 2
    Final Report All Waves

    Final Timeline

    Nestrans Monitoring Report

    The Nestrans Monitoring Report shows progress against the objectives of the Regional Transport Strategy.
     
    Nestrans has identified twenty different targets across the six priorities of the RTS. Using these, Nestrans can measure the effectiveness of policies and interventions against the intended aims.
     
    For each indicator, a baseline and targets have been set where appropriate, including interim targets for 2030 if applicable.
    You can view the baseline monitoring report for Nestrans 2040, which was approved by the Nestrans Board in February 2022.

    Aberdeen Sub Area Model (ASAM)

    The Aberdeen Sub Area Model (ASAM) is a multi-modal transport model and covers the main road and public transport network of Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire.  It was developed by Nestrans in partnership with Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Councils, the Strategic Development Planning Authority and Transport Scotland.  The current version ASAM14 has a base year of 2014 and an update is currently being developed to reflect observed travel patterns following the opening of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral and will create a new base year of 2019. 

    Transport Scotland manage requests for access to information from their national  model (Transport Model for Scotland) and various regional models, including ASAM, from their Land-use And Transport Integration in Scotland (LATIS) website.  Access to transport and travel data collected to support the creation of the models can also be requested.   

    Should you wish to access information from ASAM or any of the LATIS models, then please complete a LATIS Request Form and submit it to latis@transport.gov.scot.  Successful applicants will be required to agree to the LATIS Terms of Use