In 2008, Transport Scotland published the revised Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance (STAG). The publication of the revised STAG will provide practitioners with a new platform of a Guidance document and Technical Database. The Guidance will be easier to follow, less resource intensive, quicker to use and better fit for purpose. The launch of the revised STAG platform follows the STAG Refresh project undertaken by Transport Scotland withthe support of Halcrow Group Limited. The key focus of the paper will beto examine the main changes to the Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance providing a balance of information and insight to the revisions made to the STAG process and detailed guidance included in the Technical Database. The knowledge, understanding and application of STAG from its initial launch in 2003 to the present day are described. The importance of the skill inapplication, proportionality, where practitioners have gone wrong and howproblems/issues have been addressed during the STAG Refresh project and through the main advances in STAG are highlighted. The intention is to demonstrate to attendees that the advancement of transport appraisal guidance in Scotland will ensure that the STAG process is better understood, applied positively and robustly, and that the STAG 'toolkit' is adopted skilfully throughout Scotland. How STAG will progress during 2008 and beyond is considered, touching on the need for practitioners to continue to support meaningful participation and consultation in the field of transport appraisal in Scotland. For the covering abstract see ITRD E145999
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