Conclusion

Over the course of the 2024–2025 period, road safety partners demonstrated significant progress by successfully delivering a total of 27 deliverables. In addition to these completed deliverables, a further 30 long-term remain ongoing and are being carried forward into the 2025–2026 period, ensuring continued momentum. Furthermore, 27 new deliverables have been identified through ongoing collaboration, and these will be actively pursued by partners.

Although we seen an overall reduction in casualties, 2024 has been a challenging time for road safety across Scotland, with fatalities increasing. Transport Scotland and partners have a huge challenge ahead of us to ensure that we meet our ambitious casualty reduction targets by 2030.

Embedding the Safe System approach, which is regarded as international best practice in road safety delivery, will be fundamental to meeting our targets, and delivering our Safe System training to road safety practitioners in Scotland will support this.

Transport Scotland has committed to publish an Annual Progress Report & Delivery Plan throughout the lifetime of the framework. An update will be published on deliverables for the retrospective year, and deliverables forecasted to be delivered for the year ahead.

Transport Scotland will continue to work in collaboration with road safety partners, and the framework will continue to be delivered collaboratively with partners through a three-tier governance structure, to achieve our ambitious targets and fully deliver the RSF2030.