Annual Delivery Plan Progress

This piece of work has been progressed by WSP and regular updates on milestone progress were received.

Consulations with stakeholders took place in February 2022.

Work is progressing on the Milestone 2 Report and initial draft will be provided in the Summer of 2022.

TS: Road Safety Policy

(G)

Speed baseline has been set and the 'go live' date was 01 July 2021. The data has been collected on a month by month basis and the data will be compared with the equivalent month from the previous years.

TS: Road Safety Policy

(A)

Police Scotland continue to use an evidence-led approach to enforcement on Scotland's roads; this includes maximising the visual presence on identified routes when there is likely to be instances of speeding or collisions.

Police Scotland

(G)

Work continues to progress on the introduction of Road Traffic Diversionary Courses (RTDC), including Speed Awareness courses in Scotland. Work to date has been led by Police Scotland's Criminal Justice Services Division and has included the successful pilot of the PentiP ITC solution in D Division.

PentiP has now gone live in 8 of the divisions and another 5 were to go live by September 2022.

The legislative basis for RTDCs in Scotland will be contained within the UK Protection of Police and Public, Courts and Sentencing Bill which is due to receive Royal Assent during 2022, following which Scottish secondary legislation will be required to inform the regulatory framework.

Significant work remains to bring RTDCs to implementation and this work will now be led by Road Policing, in conjunction with all stakeholders.

Police Scotland

(G)

The Low Carbon Transport Loan (LCTL) continues to provide interest-free loans to support the purchase of new and used electric vehicles as well as commercial vehicles for businesses and sole traders. To date this year has seen the highest number of applications and loans provided under the scheme. This is further supported by the number of new EVs entering the market and the price point on these vehicle decreasing as battery technology improves and manufacturing costs reduce. To further support the uptake of EVs, the infrastructure fund continues to offer grant funding to install EV chargepoints and infrastructure across domestic, business, factored developments and Plugged in Communities (PiC). Through our PiC scheme we have supported a second round of funding to community zero emission car clubs and also funded a pilot round of a community transport pilot designed to meet unmet transport requirements in rural locations across Scotland.

TS: Low Carbon Economy

(G)

Delivery of content to the ScORSA membership and wider road safety community has continued, providing monthly themed webinars that reflect deliverables as agreed.

ScORSA have participated in opening meetings with regards to 20mph and consulted with RoSPA colleagues regards 20mph across UK.

In March, ScORSA hosted a webinar on telematics and driving with a ScORSA member case study to illustrate the benefits in terms of organisational performance and contribution to road safety.

TS; ScORSA

(G)

A literature review on speed and emissions was completed and sent to road safety colleagues.

TS: Research

(G)

A Vulnerable Locations Group (VLG) and a Vulnerable Locations Operational Group (VLOG) has been established, to focus on adaptation at both a strategic and operational level.

The VLOG has focused on a Pilot Adaptation Programme (PAP), which seeks to deliver projects which go 'beyond maintenance' on the Trunk Road Network (TRN). These schemes will seek to address the impacts that are associated with climate change, improving the safety, reliability and resilience of the TRN.

The Chair and secretariat of the VLOG attend the VLG, providing a regular update on scheme progress alongside highlighting any emerging issues in relation to climate change adaptation and resilience that should be considered at a strategic level.

TS Roads: Network Maintenance

(G)

The complex content and layout of LEZ signs have been considered and redesigned to reduce driver distractions. The new simpler designs have been created and a consultation was completed in October 2022. Currently, a review of the signage designs is underway.

TS: Environment & Sustainability

(G)

The Road Safety Improvement Fund was implemented with additional funding allocation of £15 million for road safety.

£10 million was made available to local authorities to bring forward schemes that aligned with the RSF 2030 and Safe System. The remaining £5 million was allocated to a range of road safety initiatives to reduce casualties on Scotland's roads.

TS: Road Safety Policy; Cosla

(A)

Calls for bids went live on Monday 22nd and closed for applications on the 7th March 2022.

This round of funding focused on applications that directly contribute to the Safe Road Use pillar of the Safe System, including projects which had a focus on road users such as pedestrians, cyclists or other areas that affect road use such as distraction or fatigue.

All applications relating to the Safe System as a whole were still considered as all pillars of the Safe System interlink.

There were a total of 12 application received, 8 of which were successful.

Grant offer letters were developed and issued for the successful projects and work continues with project managers to establish their projects.

TS: Road Safety Policy

(G)

TS has engaged with SG colleagues during summer of 2021 to promote both RSF 2030 and its draft Delivery Plan, including this action.

This is particularly pertinent for TS road maintenance, TS trunk road casualty reduction, TS sustainable and active travel and SG public health.

TS trunk road casualty reduction has started a programme of road safety improvements initiatives on the trunk roads funded from the active travel budget.

TS: Road Safety Policy

(G)

Revised Cycling by Design was published in September 2021 and awareness sessions have been held with local authorities and other prospective users of the new guidance.

New TRO legislation was introduced on 26 November 2021 - this allows local authorities and other statutory bodies to deliver schemes more quickly through and Experimental TRO, whereby formal consultation takes place whilst a temporary schemes is in place.

TS: Active Travel; Sustrans

(G)

The Scottish Road Safety Week (SRSW) took place, the week commencing 21 March 2022. It incorporated the Road Safety Scotland annual seminar on the 23 March 2022.

Wider actions on both the SRSW and a wider National Conversation continue to be developed in conjunction with the Scottish Government's Marketing and Insights Unit.

TS: Road Safety Policy

(G)

The campaign ran for four weeks from end May 2021:

94% of adults in Scotland saw/heard the ad at least once. The average adult would have seen/heard the ad 9.8 times Bus backs delivered additional value of more than £100k from the extra weeks the ads ran for.

Media launch achieved more than 47 million opportunities to see.

Independent research (online) with 502 people across Scotland before and after the campaign showed:

73% remembered at least one element of the campaign.

61% of people remembered Operation Close Pass.

Two thirds of people claimed to give 1.5 metres of space to people cycling every time they passed them.

More than four fifths of people who remembered the campaign stated they'd changed their driving behaviour around people cycling as a result including 'waiting behind people cycling until it's safe to pass'.

Cycling Scotland

(G)

During 2021-2022, 201 professional drivers completed Practical Cycle Awareness Training since JAUPT confirmed practical delivery could recommence.

Three fleet providers committed to embedding vulnerable road user awareness within their training centres, including McGills Buses.

Development of online learning tool for all professional drivers, with input from Living Streets Scotland. Draft content was written and agreed, with launch in April.

Cycling Scotland

(G)

Ongoing engagement using multimedia approach increased membership and web analytics, outlined in Q1 Activity report.

ScORSA has continued to engage with organisations across Scotland, growing the membership through exchanging road safety and driving for work messaging by the KPI of 20%.

ScORSA

(G)

New content and highlight of publications is continued. News releases are added to coincide with Police Scotland's campaign calendar, to strengthen the messages and 5 short animations for each pillar of the Safe System have been developed.

Supporting articles have been produced focusing on each pillar to further educate the reader on the Safe System.

The Info Hub and FAQs are kept up to date.

The website is also open to partners for a platform to promote their campaigns etc., to share what is happening at both a local and national level.

TS: Road Safety Policy

(G)

Transport Scotland's ITS capabilities continue to develop through the Traffic Scotland Service; through the procurement of replacements to the current Traffic Scotland Operations and Infrastructure Services Contract and the Traffic Scotland Systems Contract, which will commence operations in FY 2022/23.

These new contracts will embed innovation in the provision and development of ITS services and provide the contractual basis for the delivery of the strategic objectives of Transport Scotland's Future Intelligent Transport Systems Strategy, published in 2017.

TS: Intelligent Transport System

(G)

Scope and specification for this research is yet to be agreed.

TS: Transport Analytical Services

(R)

As above, scope and specification for this research is yet to be agreed.

TS: Transport Analytical Services

(R)

In February 2021, the RSF 2030 was published and in its first delivery plan, is a commitment to develop a national strategy of 20 mph zones and limits in Scotland. This supports the delivery of the Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR2) and the Programme for Government commitment of: "We will ensure all appropriate roads in built-up areas have a safer speed limit of 20 mph by 2025, forming a task group to plan the most effective route for implementation".

Key policy areas across the Scottish Government met in October to discuss individual policies where lower speeds were identified as key in the delivery of their wider objectives and to discuss the inception of the strategy and the task group.

It was recognised that greater benefits are likely to result from a 20 mph scheme that fits into a wider integrated policy agenda where there is the benefit from shared expertise and resources as well as mutually reinforcing consistent messaging across a range of matters.

A multi-stakeholder task group met, 7 December 2021, to discuss the most effective route for implementation of the national strategy for 20 mph. The task group agreed that further consideration was needed and welcomed the opportunity to have wider discussion across respective organisations before a confident position can be made.

The task group consists of members from Transport Scotland, SCOTS, COSLA, Cycling Scotland, Living Streets, IAM Roadsmart, Police Scotland, RoSPA, SCSN, Safety Camera Programme, British Horse Society, MACS, MAG, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.

TS: Road Safety Policy

(G)

The Cycling Framework, as far as I understand it, has taken account of the ATTF DP which we did produce a couple of years ago.

Second round of stakeholder engagement on draft was conducted 10 January - 18 February 2022. Full, 12 week, public consultation has began.

TS: Active Travel; Sustrans

(G)

The Taskforce Delivery Plan will be superceded by the Cycling Framework Delivery Plan.

Funding of all actions in the ATTF Delivery Plan in 21-22 continued, albeit at a slower pace due to Covid restrictions. In light of the Cycling Framework actions in 2022-23, this will be revisited.

TS: Active Travel

(A)

Two literature reviews on the application of bus stopcycle bypasses and continous footways have been published.

Findings from street audits near social housing sites have been made available.

Living Streets

(G)

TS has engaged with SG colleagues and Active Travel colleagues during summer of 2021 to promote both RSF 2030 and its draft Delivery Plan, including this action.

This is particualtly pertinent for TS road maintenance, TS trunk road casualty reduction, TS sustainable and active travel and SG public health.

TS trunk road casualty reduction has started a programme of road safety improvements initiatives on the trunk roads funded from the active travel budget. TS Road Safety Policy has regular catch-ups with TS Trunk Road Casualty Reduction, OCs and Active Travel Team to have a joined-up approach to road safety.

TS: Road Safety Policy

(G)

Updated Cycling by Design guidance was published on 17 September 2021 – this was an action from the Active Travel Task Force. This reinforces and gives stronger guidance on need for segregated walking, wheeling and cycling infrastructure.

TS has funded the Places for Everyone programme with over £62 million in 2021-22.

This is funding delivery of over 250 AT projects by LA and others nationally.

These are being designed to high quality based on the new Cycling by Design guidance and segregated where appropriate

TS: Active Travel

(G)

Cycling data was monitored and key updates shared with stakeholders: https://www.cycling.scot/opendata

Attitudes and Behaviours biennial tracker research was released December 2021 https://www.cycling.scot/news-and-blog/article/cycling-attitudes-and-behaviour-research-2021

Contribution to Highway Code working group on links to National Standard Cycle Training and communications was completed.

Cycling Scotland

(G)

The road traffic fatality research working group continues to meet, although less frequently until the newly appointed Police Scotland analyst takes up the position in February 2022. The research will commence at this point, with the reports being considered by the group and refined if necesary.

TS: Road Safety Policy

(G)

Police Scotland and Transport Scotland are continuing to work together on the implementation of a National Dashcam Portal. Police Scotland are reviewing resources with a view to going live in 2023.

Police Scotland

(G)

Recent IAM RoadSmart research can be viewed on their website: https://www.iamroadsmart.com/media-policy/research-and-policy

This includes a study on the road safety views of older drivers and also on drivers, opinions of 20mph speed limits. Their annual Safety Culture Report also tracks driver attitudes on a range of safety issues. Local groups in Scotland are delivering advanced driver and rider courses again after the pandemic and are open to local partnerships such as Rider Refinement North.

IAM RoadSmart

(G)

Transport Scotland is member of ETSC. The transport minister has been provided with a comparison of where Scotland is compared to the rest of European countries as ETSC published its PIN report on 16 June 2021.

Transport Scotland presented RSF 2030 and its comprehensive road safety performanace management at ETSC Main Council on 25 October 2021.

TS: Road Safety Policy

(G)

As per deliverable 21/42: Transport Scotland have received additional analysis of health records from Public Health Scotland and are continuing to liaise with health colleagues.

Transport Scotland and DfT have explored using data from the Association of British Insurers. Currently no data is available through that route which is suitable for the purposes of monitoring the framework; however we are continuing to discuss this with the industry to see how we can work collabortively in the future.

TS: Research, Statistics and Evaluation Unit

(A)

The ABI continues to engage with Transport Scotland and Scottish Government and share policy updates on road safety.

Association of British Insurers

(G)

Casualty rates by SIMD quintile have been produced as part of performance reporting for RSF 2030.

The focus of analysis with respect to deprivation has now shifted to qualitative methods.

TS: Research, Statistics and Evaluation Unit

(G)

Following publication of Reported Road Casualties Scotland in October, the Road Safety Framework to 2020 Evaluation has been drafted and shared with oversight groups for review.

TS: Research, Statistics and Evaluation Unit

(G)

The RSF 2030 first Delivery Plan was published September 2021. Progress is underway for the second delivery plan although this was expected to be published April 2022.

TS: Road Safety Policy

(G)

To strengthen the communication between local and national level RSF 2030 has introduced a new governance level Local Partnership Forums (LPFs).

The Road Safety Policy team has established 3 LPFs in line with the current Police Scotland command structure of North, West and East.

Initial Meetings took place in November 2022. Membership has been confirmed and meetings will continue twice a year.

TS: Road Safety Policy

(G)

The safety camera-related aspects of this deliverable are on track.

All commitments outlined within deliverable detail section have been completed to date. The remaining activities to March 2022 are on course for completion, with appropriate adjustments having been made to ensure continuing public & Officer Covid safety. Each Campaign accompanied by Comms and/or Social Media support to enhance the reach of safety messaging. The commitment to incorporate specific Campaigns, initiatives & directed activity targeting VRU safety – including cyclists, motorcyclists & pedestrians – has been met and the majority of National Campaign Calendar activity is and will continue to be Fatal Four focused.

TS: Safety Camera Programme; Police Scotland

(G)

On track for delivery albeit with revised timings which are still within the 2021/22 reporting period.

All either delivered or on track for delivery by 31 March 2022.

TS: Safety Camera Programme

(G)

What was achieved?

Lead Partner

Deliverable Status

Discussions have taken place with various teams within Public Health Scotland with them attending our Governance Groups and TS joining the Public Health and Sustainable Transport Partnership Group. Through these groups we will be undertaking a study to understand the impact of road casualties on the health service and look at a number of actions to prevent such collisions in the future.

TS (SG,NHS)

(R)

Transport Scotland is continuing to liaise with health colleagues to obtain further analysis of admissions data. Public Health Scotland colleagues have highlighted existing published analysis which provides age and gender breakdowns for hospital admissions related to road collisions, as well as providing figures for individual road user types. In addition, colleagues have provided new analysis presenting ethnicity breakdowns for road collision admissions. This fills a gap in the STATS19 data collection typically used for monitoring road casualties.

TS and SG Health

(G)

No Response Received

Scottish Ambulance Service

(R)

Young Driver campaign has adopted an always-on approach with a variety of executions throughout the year tackling: VRUs; Country Roads; Distractions; and Drink/Drug-Driving.

TS: Road Safety Scotland

(G)

Motorbike campaign was promoted through the Live Fast Die Old platform, with Breathtaking Roads videos and post-lockdown videos used to promote safe biking. A fifth Breathtaking Roads video focusing on overtaking was completed for the new biking season in 2022. Working closely with Police Scotland, RSS also had a significant presence at the Scottish Motorcycle Show in March 2022.

TS: Road Safety Scotland

(G)

Campaign delivered and launched on 27 January 2022 rather than February as originally planned.

TS: Road Safety Scotland

(G)

The campaign was delivered in March 2022 with a mix of new and existing creative. It does not specifically target at-work drivers but rather all drivers, with a bullseye audience of 25-55 year-olds.

TS: Road Safety Scotland; ScORSA; Police Scotland; All

(G)

Cycling Scotland supports adults to develop skills and confidence to cycle through National Standard aligned training and resources.

Over 1,200 adults accessing cycle training and resources (829 to date).

51 providers registered to deliver ECS sessions.

56 people trained to use cargo bikes for work and volunteer roles.

202 families accessing ECS Family training sessions.

Technical content and grant support provided to Forth Environment Link to develop and pilot 'Couch to Cycle' app.

Cycling Scotland

(G)

As of October 2021, 37% of schools delivered on-road training across Scotland, a significant uplift on 2020 figure of 20%. This was the second academic session to be disrupted by Covid-19, with local school closures, and restrictions on external instructors.

41,046 children took part in Bikeability Scotland across all three levels (the second highest year on record).

11 authorities matched or bettered pre-pandemic delivery rates.

17 local authorities received a share of £160k in Cycle Fleet Funding, to improve equity of access.

There was active engagement from Active Schools and Outdoor Education teams across Scotland, increasing support for the programme.

All training resources were updated and launched following consultation to bring them in line with the updated UK National Standard for cycle training.

Cycling Scotland

(G)

Road Safety Policy produced six animated videos about the Safe System; one generally speaking and one for each of the five pillars of the Safe System. They were published on the framework's microwebsite in the autumn until before Christmas. Trunk Road Casualty Reduction has commission consultancy to develop a training course that will be delivered at Director level, Directorate level and Supply chain level within TS (phase one covering 14 weeks from inception report received early December) and at Director level, Departmental level and Practitioner level within local authorities (phase two duration TBC).

Curriculum course and piloting – under development and will be undertaken in 22/23.

TS: Road Safety Scotland

(G)

Monthly themed webinars have been delivered with strategic partners in Scotland and the wider UK and responded to relevant consultations. Details of August to October in Q1 report.

Response to DfT and Scotgov consultations relating to road safety issues delivered and continued our focus on fatigue and driver health both of which have featured in the ScORSA webinar series.

The Fatal Four within a workplace context has continued to be highlighted and supported RSS campaigns to have a conversation through ScORSA about these topics.

Engagement through the LPF networks willl champion driving for work.

Better Biker and biking for work is a continuing theme and the ScORSA steering group has been developed to enhance understanding of active travel with a view to educating the membership.

RoSPA

(G)

RSS continued to support and promote learning resources throughout the learning sector and the Ziggy field activity was very successful in 2021.

Discussions have been ongoing regarding the renewal of resources and work has begun on reviewing those which are showing signs of wear-out.

Work has progressed on the ASM resource with an expert in the field being appointed to lead this work.

With RSS learning resources being web-based, a significant project to completely rebuild the RSS website with the migration of all relevant content across to the new site has been completed. This will make the user journey easier and content more accessible.

TS: Road Safety Scotland

(G)

Work with the Govt on speed limits and weight limits on all road types continues. Because of external pressures and resource, engagement did not go as planned on NRSW but this is in the diary for 2022.

New membership categories for Coaches/Vans and training/compliance offerings for both have been created.

All training courses have an element of content on vulnerable road users, not just CPC courses.

Road Haulage Association

(G)

SFRS Internal Road Safety Group re-structured and developed to align with National Partnership Road Safety format.

SFRS made provision to facilitate support and advice for Scottish Governement for deelopment of advert.

Project EDWARD initiative supported with event hosted at SFRS HQ in September and initiative is now promoted and supported by SFRS.

Participated in seminar but will continue to work with NFCC to identify best practice.

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service

(G)

Extensive field research completed in 2020 & 2021 with 22.5k PTWs observed. Analysis suggests positive behaviour change in a number of the key areas (speed/position). Further sites being identified and prepared for final year of trials in 2022.

Consideration made of research findings and support of the publication of an academic journal paper in respect of findings from the 2021 season.

TS: Road Safety Scotland

(G)

Remain on track to deliver on our commitments to Project CAV Forth which include improve white lining, enhanced CCTV coverage and the provision of an Actively Managed Hard Shoulder for buses on the route that will be served by the project. The live passenger trial has been delayed due to the impact of the pandemic and supply chain matters outside of Transport Scotland's control but is now working on an agreed summer 2022 start.

AMHS for Buses to be used by CAV Forth trial to be opened in February 2022. Start of CAV Forth trial of autonomous buses delayed until summer 2022 but Transport Scotland deliverable deployment complete.

TS (Scots)

(G)

The Trunk Road Risk Map has been completed and supplied to operating companies for use this year as part of the annual road safety review.

TS Roads: Operations

(A)

Through our Network Management and 4G Contracts our Operating Companies have fully embraced the safe systems culture and approach into continually delivering our maintenance programmes. We have improved road infrastructure and maintenance by achieving a £266 million spend throughout the Trunk Road Network in FY 2020/21. This is an £38 million increase from the previous financial year demonstrating our ability to ensure a robust governance and contractual management process. We continue to work in collaboration with our Operating Companies and TRCT colleagues to ensure the Safe System approach is embedded into delivering our maintenance delivery and improvement in future years. The Safe System course is being organised for delivery early 2022.

TS (All operating companies, DBFOs but also works contractors through the OC contracts (TS Roads) and major capital projects (design and construction), delivered by TS Major Projects

(G)

The Strategic Road safety plan is under preparation.

The next governance group meeting is on 3 November. This remains on track to complete as scheduled; however, if the governance group make significant asks, that may change.

TS

(A)

We are continuing to discuss the potential for delivering Safe System schemes in areas of deprivation with roads authorities. These are being supported through RSIF budgets.

TS: Research, Statistics and Evaluation Unit

(R)