Jayne is an experienced programme manager with a background developing and delivering national and European transport projects, with a special focus on low carbon transport and innovation. These have included Horizon, Interreg and Innovate UK projects trialling services such as autonomous mobility, shared e-bikes, e-cargo bikes, demand-responsive transport, mobility as a service, and installing electric charge point infrastructure. She is also experienced in providing socio-economic analysis to support economic impact assessments and feasibility studies.
At HITRANS, Jayne is currently responsible for delivering the Sustainable Aviation Test Environment programme as part of the Future Flight Challenge, with the ambition to create a UK Centre of Excellence for sustainable regional aviation. SATE is a £14.5m programme with 15 consortium partners across industry, public sector and academia.
The Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership (HITRANS) is the statutory regional transport partnership covering Eilean Siar (Western Isles), Orkney, Highland, Moray and most of the Argyll and Bute area (Helensburgh and Lomond is covered by SPT). They work with Councils, the Scottish Government, Transport Scotland, HIE, transport operators and other stakeholders to improve transport services and infrastructure in the north of Scotland and on routes to the Highlands and Islands.