Key Stakeholder Activity

Key Stakeholder Activity

In this section, Transport Scotland asked key stakeholders to provide an update on their activity over 2020, while reflecting on the framework and providing an insight to their priorities in to the new framework. Please note that, the use of 'we' in partners' contributions thereafter refers to the corresponding organisation.

Scottish Government

Road Safety Policy

Key Focuses

The Road Safety Policy Team continued to provide secretariat support to the Strategic Partnership Board and the Operational Partnership Group.

2020 was an exciting time in road safety as it saw road safety partners make a final push to meet the five casualty reduction targets and fully deliver the framework.

The team has administered grant funding for the Road Safety Framework and Evaluation Fund. Further details on the initiatives can be found on the Framework Funding page.

Throughout 2020 TSRSPT organised and chaired Stakeholder Working Groups with key road safety partners to continue developing the new Road Safety Framework to 2030.

This culminated in the draft being published for public consultation between 8 September and 1 December 2020.

Following the Lord Advocate's decision in principle in January 2019, TSRSPT has continued to attend a Police Scotland-led steering group to devise the infrastructure and guidance required for the introduction of Road Traffic Diversionary Courses (RTDC), including Speed Awareness Courses. RTDC are designed to improve driving behaviours and are used, where appropriate, as an alternative to a prosecution for some road traffic offences. This was a commitment from Scotland's Road Safety Framework for 2020. This commitment has been rolled over to the new framework to 2030.

Successes

The Road Safety Framework to 2020 included five national casualty reduction targets due for delivery in 2020. All five targets have been met, with overall casualty figure for 2020 being the lowest since annual records began in 1950.

To coincide with the launch of the Road Safety Framework to 2030, Transport Scotland developed and launched a microsite. The site aims to make the framework more readily available, to share knowledge and successes and to promote and encourage further partnership working, all raising the profile of road safety. To avoid creating a new area for road safety in Scotland, it was agreed to add the microsite onto the current Road Safety Scotland site through a framework tab.

All the content is kept up to date and news articles are regularly published to tie in with messaging from partners such as Road Safety Scotland and Police Scotland.

Road Safety Scotland

Road Safety Priorities

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, RSS has continued to promote our road safety learning resources through our social media platforms, focusing on supporting parents, carers and teachers, by signposting to online and offline activities for young children on our website.

We also continued to deliver appropriate road safety campaign messaging, recognising the restrictions in place at any given time.

Initiatives

RSS produced an updated version of Road Safety Within Curriculum for Excellence for education professionals, ensuring all educational establishments in Scotland received copies.

RSS continued to engage with teachers and other education practitioners through advertorials in a variety of professional publications.

Mindful of the reduction in traffic, and change in transport mode RSS campaigns included issues relating to young drivers: fatigue; drink-and drug-driving; and motorcycling.

Activities/campaigns that your organisation has been involved in

RSS campaigns undertaken in 2020 include:

  • Drink and drug-driving in support of Police Scotland campaigns (summer and festive)
  • Motorcycling during the biking season, kicking off with a substantial presence at the Scottish Motorcycle Show in March. RSS also developed two post-lockdown videos covering both the rider and the bike; and a new Breathtaking Roads video – the Road to the Isles – including the PRIME markings at Appin
  • A new driver fatigue campaign, including a night-time-driver video which aired in August/September
  • The development of a new speeding campaign to align with the launch of the new Road Safety Framework 2030
  • The development of two guides dealing with older road users' safety – one for drivers and one for users of other modes
  • In keeping with Covid-19 restrictions RSS, working with Good Egg Safety, piloted a number of 'virtual' car seat checks

Website dedicated to road safety

www.roadsafety.scot

Successes or lessons learned

Following a report on traffic to RSS's website during 2020, there was an increase in engagement to our site. Page views and visits shows that the content is relevant, timely and that the interactive educational content is suitable.

Two RSS initiatives were recognised by the Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards scheme in 2020:

  • 'Breathtaking Roads' (motorbikes)
  • 'Drive Like Gran's In The Car' (young drivers)

Reflecting on RSF2030, what are your objectives and priorities for 2021?

RSS will maintain the production and distribution of learning resources linked to Curriculum for Excellence, to ensure that, throughout a young person's formal education, there are high-quality, age-appropriate road safety learning resources. Provision for Early Years all the way up to late teens seeks to initiate a lifelong-learning approach to road safety when they are Vulnerable Road Users, through the Pre-Driver period and Young Driver period.

RSS will continue to focus on social media activity to promote our resource for the early years and younger primary children and will progress field campaign to reach out to outdoor leisure spaces to introduce our early years resource to various locations across the country.

RSS's main primary school resource will undergo redevelopment to ensure it is current for teachers and children. New content will be produced that is teacher-friendly and aligned to Curriculum for Excellence.

RSS will begin development of a new road safety learning resource for additional support for learning, with support from colleagues in the education field and other professionals.

RSS will work with marketing colleagues to undertake fieldwork to explore the validity of continuing theatre in education or whether, in a changing world, there might be an alternative that could prove more effective and has greater scope to be measured. The findings will give an understanding on what we need to develop to ensure road safety learning continues embedded in the education that children and young people receive in schools.

RSS will review the content for Young Driver Interventions (Get into Gear resource) to consider the current structure of the content. Since its development, there has been a number of reviews and evaluations of young driver resources that could be used to update the focus and content, with the aim to develop a resource that encourages interaction and increased traffic from stakeholders.

Through social marketing campaigns, RSS will continue to address:

  • Young Drivers
  • Speed
  • Fatigue
  • Motorcyclists
  • Drink and Drug-Driving
  • Older Road Users
  • Child In-Car Safety

RSS will also look to its assets for foreign drivers and repurpose some of them to address 'Staycationers', and develop a new campaign on seatbelts.

Major successes and challenges over the 10 years of the 2020 Framework?

We have developed many resources which are now linked closely to Curriculum for Excellence and evaluate well. We have made them all available online for anyone to access and continued to develop and the RSS website to make it easy to navigate.

We have developed campaigns which have evaluated positively and won a number of awards, both in the creative world and in the professional (road safety) one.

We have established a successful method of working with Scottish Government marketing colleagues which allows us to cover those behaviours we wish to address.

In terms of challenges, the disappearance of road safety professionals across many parts of the country has resulted in the loss of vital local support for our activity and resources.

Funding remains an ever-present challenge in using social marketing to address poor road user behaviour.

Scottish Safety Camera Programme

Road Safety Priorities

The Scottish Safety Camera Programme has continued to focus on reducing the number of casualties on Scotland's roads by encouraging improved driver behaviour.

Targeted safety cameras deployments take place through the programme primarily where they have the greatest potential to reduce injury collisions, and where there is evidence of both collisions and speeding.

This is in accordance with criteria contained in the Scottish Safety Camera Handbook and helps to ensure the right technology is in the right place at the right time.

Initiatives

Throughout 2019/20 to encourage good driver behaviour and speed limit compliance the Scottish Safety Camera has managed, maintained and operated over: 145 fixed camera sites; 31 mobile cameras; 30 red light cameras; and 7 permanent average speed camera systems.

Website dedicated to road safety

Home — Safety Cameras Scotland

Implementing engineering schemes or changes to infrastructure

As part of a significant investment in safety cameras in Scotland the following permanent safety camera sites were delivered during 2020.

  • A82/A85: new average speed camera system – March 2020
  • A832 at Avoch, Highlands: new mobile camera site – November 2020
  • B987 Northern Road, Kintore: new mobile camera site – November 2020
  • A930 Broughty Ferry, Dundee: new mobile camera site – November 2020

Successes or lessons learned

There has been a range of examples of where safety cameras have encouraged improving driver behaviour and speed limit compliance which has helped lead to a reduction in casualties. This includes: the A9 ASC system between Dunblane and Inverness which has helped deliver a significant improvement in road safety. Findings flowing from a full three-year performance report show there has been a 31% in fatal and serious casualties. These improvements have been achieved against a 13% increase in traffic, improved journey time reliability and a reduction in disruptive closures resulting from accidents or incidents. This scheme complements two other ASC systems on the trunk road network. One being the A90 between Dundee and Stonehaven which became operational in October 2017. Emerging evidence shows a 40% reduction in fatal and serious casualties alongside an encouraging improvement in driver behaviour, demonstrated by high levels (99%) of speed limit compliance. Another permanent trunk road ASC system is the A77 between Girvan and Symington. The most recent data shows there has been a 56% reduction in fatal and serious casualties compared with the original baseline published in 2005.

Reflecting on RSF2030, what are your objectives and priorities for 2021?

The safety camera site prioritisation criteria has identified a significant number of new safety camera sites.

Work will be taken forward through 2021 and beyond to deliver these sites, using a mix of mobile, fixed, red light and average speed camera technology.

Delivery of these sites will help to ensure safety cameras continue to play a key role in enhancing road safety across Scotland and supporting the delivery of the broad road safety vision and associated targets to 2030 and beyond.

Major successes and challenges over the 10 years of the 2020 Framework?

Challenge – Budgets are always a finite resource and a continual assessment, support by the safety camera site prioritisation criteria, has been undertaken to ensure the casualty reduction potential of the Safety Camera Programme has been maximised.

Success – The delivery of ASC technology on key strategic trunk road routes (e.g. A9 and A90) has helped to encourage a significant change in driver behaviour and compliance with the speed limit. This in turn has helped lead to a significant and sustained reduction in in the number of road casualties on these routes.

Trunk Road Casualty Reduction

Road Safety Priorities

Supporting the delivery of the 2020 casualty reduction targets through our targeted programme of casualty reduction investment and oversight of the Scottish Safety Camera Programme.

Initiatives

We continue to promote motorcycle safe, pedestrian safety and targeted casualty reduction initiatives derived from the annual road safety review, as well as the assessment and delivery of safety cameras in line with the provisions of the Scottish Safety Camera Handbook.

Implementing engineering schemes or changes to infrastructure

Over the year we have delivered approximately £9 million in targeted casualty reduction schemes covering relevant locations on the Trunk Road network.

We have also delivered the Scottish Government's £4.8 million budget for the maintenance, operation and improvement of Safety Cameras, including the delivery of new or improved technology and new sites here appropriate.

Successes or lessons learned

We delivered our full programmes in spite of Covid-19 restrictions and have developed or are in the process of developing tools to support the delivery of the Road Safety Framework to 2030.

Reflecting on RSF2030, what are your objectives and priorities for 2021?

To continue to deliver evidence-based casualty reduction and support the wider objectives of Transport Scotland and Scottish Ministers, as set out in the Road Safety Framework to 2030, the National Transport Strategy and the Strategic Transport Projects Review 2, etc. We intend to produce a new strategic road safety plan in support of the Road Safety Framework; work on that is yet to start.

Major successes and challenges over the 10 years of the 2020 Framework?

We have delivered a number of significant interventions, including the average speed cameras on the A9 and A90, delivered casualty reduction and active travel schemes at numerous locations across the Trunk Road network and supported the delivery of the 2020 framework targets.

Sustainable and Active Travel

Road Safety Priorities

The Sustainable and Active Travel Team focused on protecting vulnerable road users such as children, pedestrians and pedal cyclists.

Initiatives

In protecting vulnerable road users we have:

  • Built more on- and off-road segregated walking, wheeling and cycling routes, safer junctions and improved design of place. The 'Spaces for People' programme in 2020, was a direct and rapid response to the Covid-19 emergency, enabling local authorities to deliver £39m worth of temporary active travel measures to allow people to physically distance and keep them safe from traffic whilst exercising.
  • Delivered the 'Give Everyone Cycle Space', a high-profile media campaign to encourage drivers to give more space to cyclists; delivered in tandem with Police Scotland's 'Operation Close Pass' exercise.
  • Continued to offer Bikeability Scotland Cycle Training to all primary school children in Scotland.
  • Continued to offer adult cycle training.
  • Continued to offer driver cycle awareness training for HGV and bus drivers.
  • Supported the roll-out of 20 mph zones.

Activities/campaigns that your organisation has been involved in

'Give Everyone Cycle Space' run by Cycling Scotland, is widely supported by our Active Travel Delivery Partners, Police Scotland and the Active Nation Commissioner. This included the use of social media in spreading the message, which is ran annually.

Since 2018-19, we have offered funding with reduced match funding requirements (30% instead of 50%) to projects focusing on safer junctions (70% funding offered). This is ongoing throughout the year.

The 'Spaces for People' programme provided 100% funding to local authorities for safe routes for socially distancing and separation from traffic, which is ongoing throughout the year.

We have continued to show support for the roll-out of 20 mph zones across Scotland, including through capital funding programmes, which is ongoing throughout the year.

Implementing engineering schemes or changes to infrastructure

As before, we have built more on- and off-road segregated walking, wheeling and cycling routes, safer junctions and improved design of place. The 'Places for Everyone' and 'Spaces for People' infrastructure programmes, around £94m in 2020, funded by Transport Scotland and run by Sustrans, provides funding to partners to build safe routes.

As part of that, we provided funding of £23.9m directly to local authorities for cycling, walking and safer routes, especially around schools. Yearly programme funded through the Local Government settlement.

Successes or lessons learned

Successes

  • Slower speeds and the roll-out of 20 mph zones.
  • £39m investment in the 'Spaces for People' programme encouraged more walking and cycling during lockdown.

Lessons learned

Due to Covid-19 and lockdown, there has been a 47% increase in cycling between March 2020 and March 2021, compared to March 2019-2020. There have been fewer cars on the road and therefore people feel safer to cycle.

Reflecting on RSF2030, what are your objectives and priorities for 2021?

We will still focus on vulnerable road users through education to promote safe road use, encourage safe speeds through supporting 20 mph roll-out and supporting local authorities to make some of the 'Spaces for People' temporary measures, permanent.

Major successes and challenges over the 10 years of the 2020 Framework?

Successes

  • More segregated paths built for walking, wheeling and cycling
  • Achieving the roll-out of more 20 mph zones
  • Successful and rapid response to Covid-19 emergency through 'Spaces for People' programme delivery

Challenges

  • To ensure the right messages are articulated and training/info is provided to all road users when infrastructure changes are implemented
  • Overcoming resistance to new proposed active travel infrastructure, especially from businesses
  • Ensuring all infrastructure is accessible to all

National Agencies

Police Scotland

Road Safety Priorities

Our strategic intention was to 'influence road user behaviour and make Scotland's roads safer' and contribute to Scotland's Road Safety Framework to 2020.

  • Reduce road casualties in collaboration with our partners
  • Influence driver and road user behaviour

Road Safety focused around the Fatal Five:

  • Inappropriate Speed
  • Careless/Dangerous Driving
  • Using a Mobile Phone
  • Not Wearing a Seatbelt
  • Drink/Drug Driving

Initiatives

The Covid-19 Pandemic had a detrimental effect on Road Policing Campaigns and Initiatives throughout the year. Where appropriate partnership working continued via social media, whilst partner engagement was maintained via virtual meetings.

Despite the difficulties the pandemic presented, Police Scotland delivered The National Road Safety Campaign Calendar in full, with support from partners and corporate communications.

Social media was our main platform to ensure the road safety message was delivered, whilst physical delivery was subject to local Covid-19 restrictions.

Activities/campaigns – that your organisation has been involved in

  • Sat 27 June – Fri 10 July 2020: Summer Drink & Drug Drive Campaign
  • Fri 10 – Sun 12 July 2020: Motorcycle Weekend of Action
  • Tue 21 July 2020: Mobile Phone Day of Action
  • Wed 12 August 2020: Seatbelt Day of Action
  • Fri 28 – Mon 31 August 2020: Motorcycle Weekend of Action
  • Tue 8 September 2020: Speed Day of Action
  • Sat 5 – Sun 6 September 2020: Motorcycle Weekend of Action
  • Mon 14 – Sun 20 September 2020: Older Driver Awareness
  • Wed 16 September 2020: Project Edward
  • Tues 6 October 2020: Mobile Phone Day of Action
  • Wed 14 October 2020: VRU – Pedestrians & Children
  • Sat 24 – Fri 30 October 2020: Get Ready for Winter
  • Wed 11 November 2020: Seatbelt Day of Action 2
  • Mon 2 – Sun 8 November 2020: No Insurance Campaign
  • Wed 18 – Tue 24 November: BRAKE Road Safety Week
  • Tue 1 December 2020 – Sat 2 January 2021: Festive Drink & Drug Drive Campaign
  • Tue 12 January 2021: Mobile Phone Day of Action
  • Tue 16 February 2021: Seatbelt Day of Action 3
  • Wed 17 March 2021: Speed Day of Action

Website dedicated to road safety

Twitter: @polscotrpu

Implementing engineering schemes or changes to infrastructure

Road Policing via our dedicated Traffic Management officers and an Inspector embedded within Transport Scotland provide opinion on engineering schemes but do not directly implement these.

These officers also provide assistance, and ensure incidents on the strategic road network as far as reasonably practicable, are dealt with as efficiently as possible to minimise closures and delays.

Successes or lessons learned

2020 was a year of learning for many organisations with the Covid-19 pandemic impacting on daily business.

However with outstanding organisational management and support across Police Scotland as well as support from our partners we maintained not only our critical functions but our core enforcement role, delivering on our priorities and objectives.

Engagement with key stakeholders at an early stage, the sharing of vital traffic flow, mode of transport and hot spot information proved invaluable. This allowed our resources to be deployed in the right place at the right time to maximise our impact and effectiveness.

We also developed a deeper understanding of social media along with its benefits and effectiveness in reassuring the public of our commitment to road safety, and highlighted the continued work which was ongoing during the pandemic.

Reflecting on RSF2030, what are your objectives and priorities for 2021?

Our focus will be on our core role of enforcement and positive engagement with drivers and other road users, in order to achieve our objectives and improve the safety on our roads.

Objective 1 – Effective patrolling of the roads

Enforcement and engagement activity will be focused on those priority routes identified as having a history of killed and seriously injured (KSI) collisions. Tasking will be supported by appropriate analytical products.

Objective 2 – Influence driver and road user behaviour

With a specific focus on the 'Fatal Five' offences, we will work closely with national and local partners to improve driver behaviour and protect vulnerable road users, through enforcement (including diversionary options), educational initiatives and campaigns, supported by a media strategy.

Objective 3 – Detect and deter all types of criminality on our roads

Enforcement activity will be enhanced by the use of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), intelligence target packages and specific tasking to detect and deter criminal activity on the road network.

Major successes and challenges over the 10 years of the 2020 Framework?

Over the last 10 years our organisation has undergone significant change, moving from 8 legacy forces to the creation of Police Scotland. The key was to ensure the learning and excellent work already in place across legacy areas was captured and best practices adopted and rolled out nationally.

The main challenge will remain, so moving forward is to strive to further reduce those killed or seriously injured on our roads. Although we successfully realised a reduction in fatal collisions over the 10 year period, many still died on our roads. Throughout the period of the framework meaningful partnerships were forged and common goals realised. The excellent work done by our officers across Scotland to promote road safety and the assistance provided by our partners has been commendable and in no small part the reason for the reduction in those KSI.

Our major successes are those which we believe has improved road safety, or given our officers the tools to deal with those who continue to put others at risk, through their driving attitudes and behaviours.

  • The reduction and implementation of the lowering of the drink drive limit in Scotland
  • The introduction and implementation of Section 5a drug wipe technology
  • Development and implementation Rider Refinement North
  • Implementation of increase penalty points and fines for Fatal Five Offences
  • Implementation and delivery of Operation Close Pass
  • Development and delivery New Driver Early Intervention Scheme
  • Involvement in Safe Drive Stay Alive events
  • Deployment and development of technologies in Mobile Camera Safety Units and Motorcycles
  • Development and utilisation of social media accounts for road safety messaging and engagement
  • Development and delivery of the National Road Safety Campaigns Calendar
  • Delivery of a National Motorcycle Safety Campaign
  • Development of analytical products identifying collison hotspots and demand profiling

Other key points

Police Scotland are members of the Strategic Partnership Board, Operational Partnership Group and Local Partnership Forums. In addition to this, we also chair and lead the Tactical Options Working Group (over and above local Road Safety Partnerships and groups).

Scottish Fire and Rescue Services

Road Safety Priorities

  • Road Safety Education for pre-driving age teenagers through school engagement sessions
  • Participation and engagement in multi-agency local, regional and national road safety working groups
  • Support and delivery of Safe Biker initiatives, i.e. 'Biker Down' (post-crash response) and 'Rider Refinement'.

Initiatives

Delivery of planned engagement initiatives was severely curtailed due to Covid-19 restrictions. A number of road safety education programmes for schools were developed into electronic format so they could be delivered on an 'online' basis.

In addition to this SFRS has also promoted and championed the following #Drivesmart & Fatal Four initiatives through social media and digital format:

  • Country Roads
  • Drink & Drug Driving
  • Distraction
  • Motorbikes
  • Speed
  • Brake Road Safety Week

Activities/campaigns – that your organisation has been involved in

  • 19 September: Project EDWARD European Day Without a Road Death – social media
  • August 2020: Road Safety Scotland Driving Tired Kills – social media
  • 16-22 November: Brake Road Safety Week – social media
  • December 2020: Road Safety Scotland Winter Road Safety – social media

Website dedicated to road safety

https://www.firescotland.gov.uk/your-safety/road-safety.aspx

Implementing engineering schemes or changes to infrastructure

Not directly but SFRS personnel sit on road safety groups and contribute towards discussion and decisions on road safety engineering schemes or changes to infrastructure.

Successes or lessons learned

The Covid-19 enforced move towards a digital engagement approach with school pupils provided some excellent opportunities to work with young people through new approaches and has potential to continue to be utilised as a blended approach going forward.

Reflecting on RSF2030, what are your objectives and priorities for 2021?

  • Review and Develop SFRS Road Safety Strategy, structure and delivery model. From the Road Safety Framework to 2030 key areas of development being considered will align to safe road use, safe speeds and post-crash response
  • Development of improved digital school packages for schools, with potential to build upon the Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Road Safety Team approach
  • Work with NFCC to promote Fatal Five messaging and expand Biker Down
  • Support and Develop Project Edward

Major successes and challenges over the 10 years of the 2020 Framework?

Major success:

  • Ability to delivery road safety programmes and messaging as part of co-ordinated multi-agency approach
  • Work undertaken to promote road safety within the education sector
  • Biker Down delivery by SFRS

Challenges:

  • Over the 10 years of the 2020 framework SFRS has come together a single FRS for Scotland, integrating the previous 8 services. This has presented challenges in many areas including standardised delivery of Road Safety initiatives.

Other key points

In delivering against the Road Safety Framework to 2030 the SFRS will continue to work with and support the work undertaken by other a variety of agencies, i.e. NFCC Road Safety to identify opportunities and good practice that will allow us to contribute towards making Scotland's roads safer.

Road User Groups

Road Haulage Association

Road Safety Priorities

As a trade association we collaborate with a number of government bodies to support their road safety priorities. On any given year we will work with the following bodies promoting best practice in the these safety related issues:

  • DVSA – roadworthiness compliance, vehicle testing review and updates, brake testing requirements and review, driver CPC training
  • DVLA, driver medical conditions and reporting, driver licensing requirements
  • Traffic Commissioner – driver conduct e.g. mobile phone use whilst driving
  • Transport Scotland/National Highways – infrastructure issues that impact haulage operations, e.g. bridge strikes, strategic road network issues
  • HSE – secure loading of vehicles, slips and falls from vehicles, safe coupling and uncoupling of trailers etc

Initiatives

This year, as we have done for many years, will be supporting Project EDWARD, a pan European scheme operated by TISPOL. Each September, Project EDWARD or European Day Without A Road Death campaigns for a fatality-free day on Europe's roads, with the goal of raising awareness of road safety. Project EDWARD's key message is: if each road user makes small changes to reduce their own risk and their risk to other road users, then together we can make big improvements. The ultimate objective is to eliminate the number of people killed every day on Europe's roads – not only on the Project EDWARD day of action.

The 2020 day of action took place on Wednesday 16th September and was organised by the European Traffic Police Network (TISPOL), with support from the European Commission. The 2021 Project EDWARD campaign was during 13 – 17 September and was entitled 'Fit for the Road'.

Activities/campaigns – that your organisation has been involved in

Covid-19 dominated European commerce and it has to be recognised that it brought issues to businesses from all sectors. When other industries closed the logistics sector stayed open and ensured the country has food, pharmaceuticals and protective equipment. HGV drivers delivered the PPE that allowed businesses to stay open, the plant and safety equipment that allowed safe road improvements to happen and the kit that allowed social distancing throughout Scotland. This was recognised in open letters of thanks from Michael Matheson, Ben Rimmington and Ken Skates. Although not specific to road safety, the logistics sector kept Scotland safe and healthy during the worst pandemic in a lifetime.

We have also worked with and supported initiatives from PACTS: https://www.pacts.org.uk/

BRAKE https://www.brake.org.uk and the APPG for Transport Safety: https://transportsafetyappg.org.uk/

Implementing engineering schemes or changes to infrastructure

We have been part of the A9 Safety Group since its inception and as such we have been involved in promoting all the initiatives that have taken place over this time by the other partners (Drive Like Gran's In The Car, check your eyes are fit for driving, Red X etc).

Successes or lessons learned

Both National Lorry Week and HGV Heroes have been massive successes, promoting best practice and safe operating within the industry. Many events were held across the UK at schools, yards, service stations etc and the reach for both events on social media was outstanding. These events concentrate on highlighting blind spots, safe passing of HGVs and road safety principles.

  • NLW key stats – 7,452,412 impressions, 43,404 clicks and 160,777 engagements
  • HGV Heroes – 2,400,000 impressions, 130,000 clicks, 93,000 engagements

Reflecting on RSF2030, what are your objectives and priorities for 2021?

Our objectives remain the same as always:

  • To work in partnership with other organisations to promote best practice in road safety for HGV's vans and coaches within the UK
  • To embed road safety in all our training courses throughout the UK
  • To support future initiatives from the Scottish Government, UK Government and related safety bodies
  • To continue to promote the benefits of safety and compliance throughout the HGV, coach and van sectors.

Major successes and challenges over the 10 years of the 2020 Framework?

The RHA has for many years embedded road safety into their training courses and over the years thousands of drivers, transport managers, administrators and business owners have pass through our doors.

All our courses cover topics such as:

  • Vulnerable road users,
  • Essential rest periods
  • Walk around checks
  • Safe and secure loading
  • Accident procedures

As well as specific courses on health and safety for drivers, first aid, health & safety courses including IOSH Managing Safely.

Other key points

The RHA has expanded their membership categories to include vans and coaches.

Vans have previously operated with little scrutiny or levels of compliance. Legislative changes beginning in 2022 means that there will be greater levels of compliance required to operate a van fleet and the RHA are looking to support this change in levels.

Our coach membership has come about because we were approached by a group of coach operators who want to be part of what we seek to achieve, to increase compliance levels, promote better and safer practices and to ensure their voices are heard in Westminster, Holyrood, the Welsh Assembly and Stormont.

Third Sector

IAM RoadSmart

Road Safety Priorities

At IAM RoadSmart we make better drivers and riders. As the UK's largest independent road safety charity, formed in 1956, we have spent more than 60 years making our roads safer by improving driver and rider skills through coaching and education.

Our qualified experts, our network of thousands of volunteers and around 180 local groups are our lifeblood. They champion our cause and help drive our vision – to be the best, most recognised provider of coaching and advice for all post-licence drivers and riders, and to help make our roads safer for all.

Our mission:

  • To improve the standards of driving and riding on the roads
  • To improve road safety
  • To administer a nationally recognised advanced test

Initiatives

As well as providing the Advanced Driver and Rider tests through our network of Scottish IAM Groups we have contributed to local initiatives such as Rider Refinement North.

IAM RoadSmart also provide fleet training courses and Driving for Work advice across to clients across Scotland.

Our Mature Driver Review is also available in Scotland to give older drivers a one-hour independent view of their driving ability.

Our Research and Policy Director Neil Greig also chairs the Road Safety Scotland Publicity Advisory Group and serves on the framework's OPG.

Activities/campaigns – that your organisation has been involved in

Our main local campaign activity has included:

Rider Refinement North: https://www.facebook.com/HighlandIslandsPoliceDivision/posts/rider-refinement-north-motorcycle-safety-courses-dingwalla-training-scheme-to-he/10155875540850824/

Driver Engagement North: https://roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/initiative-to-provide-safe-environment-for-older-drivers/

Our local groups also work with a variety of road safety bodies to deliver training and road safety campaigns – you can find a local group in Scotland here https://www.iamroadsmart.com/local-groups

Website dedicated to road safety

www.iamroadsmart.com

Implementing engineering schemes or changes to infrastructure

IAM Members took part in the research for the PRIME motorcycle markings project.

Successes or lessons learned

Covid-19 has been a major challenge for us but we will hopefully emerge unscathed to continue to provide top quality advanced driver and rider training courses. In 2020 there was a new focus on driving for work initiated by HSE which we believe will be very influential in the future.

Reflecting on RSF2030, what are your objectives and priorities for 2021?

Covid-19 has been a major challenge for us but we will hopefully emerge unscathed to continue to provide top-quality advanced driver and rider training courses. In 2020 there was a new focus on driving for work initiated by HSE which we believe will be very influential in the future.

Major successes and challenges over the 10 years of the 2020 Framework?

The framework has allowed IAM RoadSmart to be at the centre of road safety policy development and campaigning throughout the last ten years.

Our main successes have often been at a local level with our IAM RoadSmart Groups working as key partners in a variety of road safety campaigns and initiatives.

Cycling Scotland

Road Safety Priorities

  • Making it safer for more people of all ages and abilities to cycle
  • Delivering the Give Cycle Space campaign
  • Supporting the development of an ambitious new Road Safety Framework to 2030, including a focus and specific actions to improve safety for people cycling

Initiatives

Bikeability Scotland delivers an essential life skill: the ability to ride a bike easily, safely and confidently. Cycling Scotland's ultimate ambition is for every child in Scotland to have the opportunity to learn to cycle safely and confidently on-road. In 2020, delivery was curtailed by Covid-19 lockdown and restrictions. In 2019, the last full academic year of delivery, over 43,000 children took part with the biggest ever annual increase in the proportion of schools delivering on-road training to 47%. 100% of primary schools in four local authorities (East Renfrewshire, Shetland, Clackmannanshire and Western Isles) delivered on-road training.

The Adult Cycle Training programme will increase the availability and uptake of cycle training, educational resources and led rides for adults getting back on their bike and at key life transition stages. Over 500 accessed the training to end of December.

Practical Cycle Awareness Training for Drivers of HGV and buses increases understanding of cycling behaviour for professional drivers. A PCAT evaluation of telematics data was completed in 2020 – identifying long-term, significant changes in driver behaviour reflected in change to speeding score.

Major evaluation of bikeability training with Children in Scotland, getting the voices of children on this and other road safety interventions.

Activities/campaigns – that your organisation has been involved in

Give Cycle Space campaign

Cycling Scotland runs an annual campaign to educate drivers about giving more space to people cycling.

  • Give Cycle Space launched on 6 July, timing with the increase in traffic levels post-lockdown. The campaign ran for four weeks on TV, radio and online across Scotland, and on bus backs in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Inverness, Edinburgh, Dundee, Stirling and Perth.
  • The media launch was covered by most national and local media with more than 31.3 million opportunities to see.
  • Independent research with 502 people across Scotland was carried out before and after the campaign (online, rather than face-to-face, due to Covid-19). Some of the key learnings were:
    • 73% remembered at least one element of the campaign.
    • Recognition of getting 3 points on your licence as a consequence of passing too close to a cyclist increased from 52% to 66%.
    • The proportion of people who claim they always give 1.5m when passing someone cycling was 64% in the pre-campaign research and 67% post campaign.
  • Linked to the campaign, we are carrying out a road signage pilot project to test the impact of roadside signage on overtaking distance. Results anticipated in Autumn 2021.

Website dedicated to road safety

www.cycling.scot

Implementing engineering schemes or changes to infrastructure

We have supported the implementation of Places for Everyone funding, Cycling Walking, Safer Streets funds and other funds that will increase dedicated cycling infrastructure to improve road safety for all. In 2020, this has included the transformational Spaces for People funding.

Successes or lessons learned

Reflecting on RSF2030, what are your objectives and priorities for 2021?

  • Increase bikeability and other cycle training post-lockdown
  • Support the development of third party reporting systems for road offences
  • Support the development of an effective delivery plan for the Road Safety Framework
  • Support implementation of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019, which should help tackle dropped kerb and double parking which can increase hazards for people cycling

Major successes and challenges over the 10 years of the 2020 Framework?

  • Expansion of bikeability and other cycle training to more pupils and adults
  • Support for increased focus on cycle infrastructure investment

Other key points

Our long term objectives on cycling safety are:

  • To increase the number of people cycling while reducing the exposure rate for serious injuries and fatalities
  • To increase the availability of dedicated cycling networks, separated from vehicle traffic, allowing people of all ages and abilities to travel by bike
  • To increase the availability of cycle training across the population: every child in every school to have the opportunity to receive Bikeability Scotland on-road cycle training
  • To undertake research into attitudes and behaviours around road safety for people cycling and to tackle misconceptions
  • To continue to work in partnership with Police Scotland, including on Operation Close Pass and the development of third party reporting
  • To annually evaluate and evolve our Give Cycle Space campaign
  • To reduce risks and perception of risks to people cycling through supporting changes in the speed, type and volume of traffic in towns and cities

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Scotland (RoSPA)

Road Safety Priorities

RoSPA, via the Scottish Occupational Road Safety Alliance (ScORSA), continued to offer advice and resources to members on MORR topics – Management of Occupational Road Risk – for the benefit of employers and employees involved in driving and riding for work. The aim for 2020 was to:

  • Continue to enhance the ScORSA website to inform and encourage organisations whose employees drive for work by promoting the development of policy, increasing the resources available and developing associated MORR working practices
  • Increase ScORSA membership by providing relevant resources and information whilst engaging with trade associations and other relevant bodies to raise awareness of the organisation and their aims
  • Provide Secretariat function for the Steering Group, drive activity and host/attend relevant meetings to progress the aims of ScORSA
  • Deliver an annual seminar highlighting best practice, current legislative implications etc.
  • Create, organise and deliver workshops dedicated to improving safe driving practices amongst young and ageing drivers, highlighting the benefits that technology including ISA, telematics, fleet management software etc. can bring to those who drive for work and to fleet managers
  • Provide a series of workplace risk assessment for members which will be designed to review policy and working practices to improve driver safety in the workplace
  • Offer driver profiling facilities to benefit members particularly those at risk
  • Develop ScORSA resources and in particular the existing ScORSA Driving Risks Toolkit, potentially developing into a continuous professional development module for MORR in the workplace
  • Independently evaluate, to assess impact and effectiveness of the project, gaining evidence from previous SMEs and evaluating backwards as well as forward

Initiatives

Fatigue and driving for work was a major focus for ScORSA in 2020. Policy was informed by RoSPA's National Road Safety and National Occupational Safety and Health committees.

ScORSA worked in partnership with Road Safety Scotland and their campaign team on the #DrivingTiredKills campaign.

A ScORSA member took part in the awareness campaign on fatigue. He was filmed telling his story from a personal and a business perspective.

Activities/campaigns – that your organisation has been involved in

On 31 March 2020, ScORSA Member and RoSPA-award-winning organisation TechnipFMC were due to hold a road safety open day for their staff and for staff of neighbouring organisations on the industrial estate where they are based in Dunfermline as well as friends, families and the wider community. ScORSA and RoSPA supported the graduate team who put the plans in place for a full day of events which covered whole-person, whole-life road safety.

Due to the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic the event had to be cancelled at short notice. The TechnipFMC team went on to re-focus the enthusiasm of their young drivers and developed an online app to engage young drivers and their families. This was highlighted at a ScORSA St Andrew's Webinar.

Website dedicated to road safety

www.scorsa.org.uk

Successes or lessons learned

We have been pleased to be able to continue engaging with the ScORSA membership using online platforms. We replaced the annual St Andrew's Seminar, a full-day information and face-to-face networking event, with a series of three online webinars. This allowed us to focus on more aspects of managing occupational road risk than at the traditional event, engage with members with particular interests in each topic and gather feedback to inform future events and policy.

Reflecting on RSF2030, what are your objectives and priorities for 2021?

In order to support the vision for Scotland to have the best road safety performance in the world by 2030, ScORSA will focus on three of the five outcomes of the Safe System –

  • Safe Road Use
  • Safe Vehicles
  • Safe Speeds

The challenge will be –

  • Driving/Riding for Work and Workplace Culture – its effect on road casualties

And strategic actions will be –

  • Change in attitudes and behaviours
  • Technology
  • Enforcement

Major successes and challenges over the 10 years of the 2020 Framework?

We have built good working relationships with partners in the OPG and acted as a conduit for partner messaging on road safety.

We have continued to deliver advice and resources to our membership via face-to-face events and adapted this and made a success of online engagement and delivery.

Living Streets Scotland

Road Safety Priorities

Living Streets Scotland continues to work in schools promoting the benefits of walking. This includes collaborating with junior road safety officers to promote our programme WOW. We have also explored issues around school gate congestion working with a group of schools in Glasgow. Finally, we have offered support to a number of councils planning school street closures.

Initiatives

Our work has focused on working with schools, social housing providers and supporting older people to secure street improvements. Much of this activity has been curtailed as result of the pandemic in 2020. Substitute research-based work around equalities and accessibility issues has yielded lessons applicable to the delivery of road safety projects.

Successes or lessons learned

Our work with older people has demonstrated that it is possible to secure small-scale improvements to streets through community engagement and raising the awareness of transport officers regarding local priorities. Our work has revealed the need to improve how equality impact assessments are delivered in the context of transport infrastructure improvements.

Reflecting on RSF2030, what are your objectives and priorities for 2021?

  • Living Streets Scotland will continue press for the following priorities:
  • Reviewing speed limits and adopting 20 mph on residential and urban streets
  • School street closures as part of wider initiatives to encourage children to walk to school
  • Better engagement with communities concerning road safety issues that discourage walking
  • Closure of streets near schools to promote both safety and walking to school

Major successes and challenges over the 10 years of the 2020 Framework?

  • Living Streets been pleased to support:
  • The continued uptake of 20 mph limits in urban areas especially in Edinburgh
  • Maintaining walking levels to school and the general decline pedestrian casualties
  • The biggest challenge relates to a lack of data on walking levels and understanding how this is reflected in casualty statistics
  • The contraction of local authority road safety expertise and resources at a local authority level has made it difficult to deliver many changes

Scottish Community Safety Network

Road Safety Priorities

Supporting the work of the Operational Partnership Group and continuing our knowledge exchange role between community safety partnerships in Scotland and what is going on in road safety. We shared road safety developments, emerging issues, trends and campaigns with community safety professionals through our social media and newsletter. We also shared campaigns with our sister organisation Neighbourhood Watch Scotland for communicating through their ALERT system.

Contributing to the development of the RSF2030 by participating in the stakeholder group, submitting a response to the consultation on the RSF2030 and participating in the KPI development group.

We also wrote a briefing paper on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on road safety for the sector.

Activities/campaigns – that your organisation has been involved in

As an intermediary organisation covering all community safety issues, not just road safety and not a delivery partner, we have not been involved in any. We do share all the Road Safety Scotland campaign materials with the 32 community safety leads in each local authority area and support the campaigns by sharing on our own social media and in our monthly newsletter.

Successes or lessons learned

It has been a challenging and unusual year. Getting the framework published has been a super achievement and one which all partners can be proud of.

SCSN think the OPG could have made more of a link between the active travel and road safety policy areas, particularly during the pandemic and support 'build back better' efforts. Developing a shared understanding of the implications for road safety during and post-pandemic would have been a useful exercise. Having a plan for education on road safety this past year and into the first couple of 'post-pandemic' years would have been welcome, and something that could have been co-created.

SCSN think the process creating the KPIs, targets, outcome indicators for the framework has been a successful one – we are particularly pleased to see some of the changes to the danger/risk per mode per distance travelled and raising the importance of how safe people feel on Scotland's roads. The latter is closely linked with active travel efforts and we welcome its inclusion.

Reflecting on RSF2030, what are your objectives and priorities for 2021?

Continuing to contribute to the work of the OPG and better connecting road safety policy to wider safer communities policy and partnerships.

Help to improve the links between community level road safety to local partnerships to national policy in terms of insight and influence.

Help road safety policy area think more broadly about measurement, evaluation and learning and perceptions and experiences.

Support road safety colleagues to build their understanding of the role that feeling safe plays in the road safety landscape, particularly in light of some of the conversations on women's safety and participation in active travel.

We want to do some work on language used in the media in relation to women and safety but also in relation to road safety incidents, particularly those involving cyclists, pedestrians and the misconceptions that are perpetuated via careless reporting.

We hope to support some work via OPG on education initiatives where community safety partners are involved – as per the sub-group of a few years ago and evaluation of one-off large education events.

Major successes and challenges over the 10 years of the 2020 Framework?

Challenges:

  • Challenging the prevailing thinking/dominant voices around enforcement, large-scale one-off education events, delineation of road safety and active travel, perceptions of safety and involvement/voices of communities and citizens, road user hierarchy of those causing greatest damage needing to take most responsibility, challenging evaluation and measurement approaches. Welcome progress on most of these over the course of the 10 years of the 2020 framework and over the 3.5 years of SCSN's involvement in the RSF and OPG.
  • Remaining challenge of connection road safety into wider community safety (especially at a national level) and unintentional injury. Some of our other answers reference challenges too.

Major successes:

  • Making some headway in evaluating and measuring differently, bringing active travel and road safety closer together, moving towards understanding the importance of perceptions and citizen voice
  • Some fantastic campaigns
  • The work of the OPG as a collective has really strengthened over the past years – credit to all involved
  • The RSF2030 is an exciting piece and has come on so much since 2020 setting the framework for the next chapter

Other key points

Our other answers capture everything we'd like to say apart from the following points:

  • It might be useful to undertake a self-evaluation/self-assessment of the OPG to see where this collective could develop in the future.
  • We would welcome some more consideration of the national-local link
  • TS (and OPG partners) should continue their work on education initiatives as this has not received the attention needed. We would encourage TS (and other OPG) partners to attend to the risk register as there are some risks that have remained stubbornly stationary.

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