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progressing its Spatial Plan. Meanwhile the transport planning previously undertaken
by individual local authorities is being reorganised through regional consortia. This
work is being conducted in the context of the emerging Wales Transport Strategy
which serves to support and promote the outcomes sought in the Spatial Plan (17.6).
Following devolution sub-national transport planning in Wales centred on the
production of Local Transport Plans by its individual unitary authorities, like their
English counterparts. However the Transport (Wales) Act 2006 modified the Transport
Act 2000 and the National Assembly passed an order which replaced LTPs with new
Regional Transport Plans. These are being prepared by four consortia, operating in
their established form as voluntary joint committees:

• TAITH - North Wales
• TRACC - Central Wales
• SWWITCH - South West Wales
• SEWTA - South East Wales.

These areas are shown in Figure 18.3.
In their current form these consortia do not assume the executive functions of
their constituent councils as highway authorities. Rather they prepare RTPs on a

ISLE OF
ANGLESEY

CONWY

Taith

GWYNEDD

TraCC

P O W Y S

Consortium boundary

Unitary council

MERTHYR
TYDFIL

SWWITCH

BLAENAU
GWENT

NEWPORT

CARDIFF

THE VALE OF
GLAMORGAN

Figure 18.3 Regional Transport Consortia in Wales (reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey
on behalf of HMSO © Crown copyright 2009. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey
Licence number 100045659)