Could this be the way forward in reducing car usage?

An artists rendering of a potential hub design

A shared transport charity has drawn up and costed plans for a mobility hub in Milngavie to answer key questions on its design and delivery.

Collaborative Mobility UK (CoMoUK) published guidance showing how five different types of mobility hub could be introduced in various settings across Scotland, with a feasibility study carried out for each.

It includes one in Milngavie, which took inspiration from the layout of the town’s train station.

Mobility hubs bring together shared, public and active travel modes, along with community facilities, and redesign and reallocate space away from the private car.

They are used in many cities across Europe and North America and are increasingly spreading in the UK.

The hubs can take several different forms, ranging from larger interchanges in busy city centres to mini stations which are tailored to suburban or rural areas.

Designers used real places to create fictional but plausible settings for the five different typologies.