Appendix A - Questionnaires

Cycling Framework for Active Travel in Scotland - Local Authority Questionnaire

  1. Your name, organisation, position and contact details
  2. Do you have a cycling, walking or Active Travel Strategy? If yes, please provide details.
  3. If you do not have an Active Travel Strategy, what is guiding your investment in active travel infrastructure and in walking and wheeling infrastructure?
  4. What does your organisation plan to deliver over the next 5 years for cycling, please include estimated timescales and budgets where available.
  5. What are the key issues or barriers that your organisation faces in delivering your Active Travel Strategy or your investment in active travel?
  6. How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed your plans/priorities for cycling in the short (1-2 years), medium (3-5 years) and long term (5 years plus)?
  7. Do you know of any important or successful active travel, placemaking or other strategies relevant to increasing cycling from other councils, regions or around the world? (please be specific)
  8. What strategic actions do you think should be included in the delivery plan of the new Cycling Framework? (please be as specific as possible)
  9. What should the new Cycling Framework and Delivery Plan include to ensure that they are inclusive, and inequalities are addressed? e.g., increase investment in infrastructure that connects more deprived neighbourhoods and meets the needs of the people who live there
  10. What are the other key Government strategies and National Performance Framework outcomes that can contribute to increased uptake in cycling for everyday journeys?
    (such as planning, placemaking, housing, sport (including 2023 World Championships), health and education)
  11. How should the new Cycling Framework be monitored and reviewed, including the wider benefits e.g., in health?
  12. Do you have any other comments?

Stakeholder Questionnaire

  1. Your name, organisation, position and contact details.
  2. What is your role in supporting cycling?
  3. What are the key issues or barriers to achieving modal shift to cycling in Scotland?
    What impact has the COVID-19 pandemic had on cycling in Scotland? What lessons
    can be learned from this that can be included in the Framework and Delivery Plan?
  4. Do you know of any important or successful active travel, placemaking or other strategies relevant to increasing cycling from other councils, regions or around the world?
    (Please be specific)
  5. What strategic actions do you think should be included in the delivery plan of the new Cycling Framework?
    (please be as specific as possible)
  6. What should the new Framework and Delivery Plan include to ensure that they are inclusive and inequalities are addressed?
    e.g., increase investment in infrastructure that connects more deprived neighbourhoods and meet the needs of the whole population
  7. What are the other key Government strategies and National Performance Framework outcomes that can contribute to increased uptake in cycling for everyday journeys?
    (such as planning, placemaking, housing, sport (including 2023 World Championships), health and education)
  8. Do you have any other comments?