Regional Consultation 4: Linlithgow

Thursday 3rd December 2009 (13.30 – 17.00)

Venue: St Michael's Parish Church, Kirkgate, Linlithgow, EH49 (7 minutes walk from the station)

Programme

13.15 / Coffee/tea – light snack - registration
14.00 / Transform Scotland Trust – Introduction of Project Objectives
Participants – introductions
14.15 / Chas Ball, founder, City Car Club (TST consultant)
Car clubs – introduction to key issues for the day
Setting the scene – world picture – pressure of carbon emissions – move to low carbon vehicles – car clubs as “key” to modal shift
1. Presenting how car clubs work (video)
2. Show how telematics work and how “low tech” car clubs
3. Differentiate between business models and legal structures – commercial – community enterprise/CIC - co-operative
14.45 / Case studies: setting up/operating a car club in a bigger city and in a market town – the barriers
15.00 / What are the barriers to setting up and running a viable car club? (group exercise)
Summarise the barriers – are conclusions different between big city; small town and rural community?
15.30 / Tea
15.45 / Identifying the opportunities for car clubs
1. What do car clubs do best to contribute to mobility and reducing carbon emissions and modal shift?
2. What are the best locations – density, demography, transport links?
3. What types of user/journey are they best suited for – workplace and leisure?
4. What vehicle types work best – do electric cars figure in the plans?
16.30 / Summarising group findings
Conclusions – key points for the Car Club Review
17.00 / Close

Please use the web-based booking form to reserve a place. The workshop is free but places are limited. Coffee and tea on arrival and lunch will be provided. We will send you joining instructions and any other documents by e-mail about two weeks before the event.

If you have any problems with making a booking please ring Jen Taylor at RATC Ltd on 0161 368 6603 or e-mail .

Chas Ball [01484 454477]

Transform Scotland Trust