National Outcomes

Enabling active travel contributes towards a range of national policy outcomes. National outcomes relevant to active travel are reproduced below, to assist with framing active travel in the local and national context.

While increasing the numbers of people walking, wheeling and cycling is key, it is important to also consider wider benefits such as population health, contribution to net zero and climate adaptation and improving the quality of public spaces in line with the National Transport Strategy.

Active Travel Framework

The Active Travel Framework brings together the key policy approaches to improving the uptake of walking, wheeling and cycling in Scotland

  • Increase the number of people choosing walking, wheeling and cycling in Scotland
  • High quality walking, wheeling and cycling infrastructure is available to all
  • Walking, wheeling and cycling is safer for all
  • Walking, wheeling and cycling is available to all
  • Delivery of walking, wheeling and cycling is promoted and supported by a range of partners

Active Scotland Outcomes Framework

National outcomes working towards more people being more active, more often, set as part of the Active Scotland Delivery Plan

  • We encourage and enable the inactive to be more active
  • We encourage and enable the active to stay active throughout life
  • We develop physical confidence and competence from the earliest age
  • We improve our active infrastructure people and place
  • We support wellbeing and resilience in communities through physical activity and sport
  • We improve opportunities to participate, progress and achieve in sport

Place and Wellbeing Outcomes

The Place and Wellbeing Outcomes provide a consistent and comprehensive focus for where place impacts on the wellbeing of people and planet. They are a set of interlinked outcomes for what every place needs for people to thrive and enable wellbeing. Outcomes sit under five overarching themes of movement, spaces, resources, civic and stewardship. They require all sectors to collaborate in order to deliver these outcomes in every place.