Wednesday 28 July Public Consultation Event Presentations

1. The Scottish Ferries Review
Consultation Document 2010
Mull – 28 July 2010
Judith Ainsley

2. Introduction
• General presentation on Ferries review
• Q&A
• Workshop on routes and services
methodology
• Opportunity for final questions

3. The Consultation
• Consultation Document, not a Plan
• Runs to 30 September 2010
• Questionnaires to complete and return
• 33 key questions
• scottishferriesreview@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
• 0131 244 1539
• Documents available on our website

4. Commitment to Ferries
• Essential part of our transport network
• Essential for access to vital services
• Enable movement of freight
• Encourage sustainable and growing
communities
• Must provide a safe, sustainable system
• Quality employment

5. Summary of the Review:
• Inform a long term Ferries Strategy – to 2022
• Influence next round of tendering for services
• Investment programme for vessels and ports
and harbours
• All publicly funded ferries included – Scottish
Government and local authority funded
• No potential routes excluded
• Needs of passengers, cars, commercial vehicles
and freight all to be considered

6. Lack of consistency
• Funding services
• Funding vessels
• Funding harbour infrastructure
• Responsibility for delivery
• What routes and what level of service
• Tendered services
• Provision of vessels

7. What we’ve done so far
• Been helped in forming opinions by project
groups
• Consultants and CMAL carried out specific
pieces of work to inform us
• Public consultation events last year
• Extensive data collection

8. Challenges
• Less money available to invest in and
support ferries
• Ageing fleet and need for investment
• Ageing harbour infrastructure and need for
investment
• Escalating fuel and crew costs
• Subsidy levels increasing

9. Funding and Procurement
• To 2022 need £604m for vessels
• To 2022 need £180m for ports and
harbours replacement
• To 2022 need £7.5m p.a. annually for
ports and harbours maintenance
• The services also need to be funded -
2007/8 cost for all c. £103m, 2008/9 for
DML c.£90m
• We are asking you to consider options

10. Funding Options
• The status quo
• CMAL to access funds through alternative
structural or financing routes
• Ports and harbours could be self-funding
• Users of the service to pay more
• Open the market up to greater competition

11. Procurement Options for services
• Tender some routes singly with the option for operators
to bring their own vessel(s) to the tendered routes?
• Specific routes are suggested
• Allow single routes to be “bundled” or stagger the
tenders?
• Leave remaining routes within the 2 large bundles?
• Loosen the tender requirements, specifying only the
minimum level service to allow operators the flexibility to
innovate?
• What should be specified?

12. Fares Options
• Increase all fares
• Increase visitor fares
• Reduce fares for island/peninsula
residents
• Reduce fares for commercial vehicles
• RET or other distance based
• To manage demand
• Mixed approach

13. Fares Questions
• Asking you to consider what the rationale
for/purpose of the fares policy should be.
• Should fares differentiate between
islanders/residents of peninsular
communities and other ferry users?
• One fares policy across Scotland or
different policies dependant on needs of
communities?

14. What services should be funded?
• We have developed a methodology –
based on Summer timetables - for
determining what routes and services are
needed
• We will now do the same for Winter
timetable

15. How should services be provided?
• Who should be responsible for providing
ferry services that need public subsidy?
• Should there be central procurement
expertise regardless of who is responsible
for the provision of the service?

16. Options
• Status quo – inconsistent approach
• Scottish Government becomes
responsible for all
• Local Authorities/RTPs become
responsible for all
• A more consistent split of responsibility for
example….

17. How responsibility could be split?
• SG responsible for services between
mainland and islands, LAs or RTPs
responsible for all others
• Dependant on administration at either end
of the route
• Dependant on whether the route is
classed as a “sea” route or one with less
onerous conditions

18. Accessibility
• Disabled people, those travelling with
children or luggage, PRMs
• Equalities Impact Assessment at Draft
Plan stage
• Accessibility Assessments carried out
• Recommendations from this work in the
consultation document and you are asked
for your views

19. Accessibility
• Should they be implemented now?
• Included in future tender
requirements?
• Accessibility improvement fund?
• Information system indicating the
degree of accessibility?

20. Environmental Issues
• Some questions regarding reducing
emissions aimed at operators
• Question 33, would you support longer
journey times as part of a CO2 emissions
reduction programme?
• Do you have any other suggestions to
reduce emissions?

21. Any questions so far?

22. Part 2 - Workshop session
• Opportunity to explore and discuss our initial findings
for Mull, Iona, Ardnamurchan and Morvern. So far we
have considered:
1. what you need your ferry for
2. what a service would look like to meet these needs
3. where the gaps are
• We have still to consider options to address the gaps
and prioritise future spending

23. Checking we’ve got this right?
• Aware that in defining the needs of the
community and defining a ferry service to
meet those needs there might be things
we haven’t got quite right.
• We need you to tell us what you think –
have we described your community
correctly?
do we need to change anything?

24. Current Issues
Mull
• Complicated timetable with variations on sailings;
Integration with other public transport modes on
mainland
Iona
• Limited sailings, winter timetable and inconsistent
timetables/sailings
Ardnamurchan and Morvern
• Limited timetable
• Winter timetable and inconsistent timetable

25. Household survey results
• An average of 67% of people on Mull who use the ferry
most are either quite or highly satisfied with their current
services.
• Iona – small sample size so combined with other
communities, therefore no separate figures available.
• An average of 79% of people in Ardnamurchan and
Morvern who use the ferry most are either quite or highly
satisfied with their current services.
• Average satisfaction for the network is 73%.

26. What you need your ferry for -
1. Commuting - importance of ferry to enable regular
commuting and business travel to and from
community.
2. Personal – if people are dependent on basic services
and facilities from the mainland
3. Supply chain - where communities have good access
to public amenities and shopping – these amenities
need supplying
4. Export/Import - where an island requires the ferry to
cope with high levels of freight transit.
5. Tourism – how dependent is the island on tourism.

27. Initial findings
• Mull - Export/Import and Tourism are equally important.
Followed by Supply chain, Personal and then
Commuting
• Iona – Tourism is important. Followed by Commuting,
Personal, Export/Import and then Supply Chain
• Ardnamurchan-Tourism and Commuting are equally
important. Followed by Supply chain and then Personal
and Export/import
• Morvern- Personal, Export/Import and Tourism are all
equally important. Followed by Commuting and Supply
chain.
• Does this feel right?

28. How did we assess this?
• Commuting –We used household survey
data. We looked at the % of people who
said their principle use was commuting or
business travel;
• Personal - We considered the population
density of the island and weighted this
against factors such as whether the
community has access to local
healthcare/school facilities etc;

29. How did we assess this?
• Supply chain - The measure for this
dependency was the population size of the
island;
• Export/import -The measure for this
dependency is commercial vehicle lane
metres;
• Tourism - measured by the average
number of people employed in tourism for
the community and the ratio of summer
and winter patronage.

30. Defining a service
• In defining a service to meet these needs
we have considered:
1.Crossing time;
2.number of sailings per day;
3.length of operating day; and,
4.the number of days per week the service runs

31. Initial analysis
• Mull - A slightly longer crossing time together with a
longer operating day. And no change to sailings per day
or days per week.
• Iona - A longer crossing time, a reduced number of
sailings per day, a shorter operating day and a reduced
number of days per week.
• Ardnamurchan - No change to the length of crossing
time, a reduced number of sailings per day, a longer
operating day and no change to the number of days per
week.
• Morvern – A longer crossing time and a reduced
number of sailings per day, a longer operating day and
no change to the number of days per week.
• However, we will take account of consultation responses
and where applicable Steps 5 and 6 yet to be applied

32. Steps 5 and 6
• Identify options to address proposed
changes at Step 4
• STAG based appraisal
• Objectives to take account of current
issues
• Prioritise future spend across the Scottish
ferries network

33. What happens next?
• Public consultation to 30 September 2010
• 43 events within this period
• Draft Ferries Plan with more detailed Strategic
Environmental Assessment and an Equalities
Impact Assessment
• Further minimum 6 week consultation period
• Final Ferries Plan