Past Initiatives
Transport Scotland Road Safety Policy are delighted to have so many groups contributing to cutting deaths on Scotland’s roads.
Below is a list of previous successful applications for match funding. Transport Scotland Road Safety Policy hope it inspires you to get involved.
Funding period: 2019/20
Location: Various
Key priority: Age
Organisation: RoSPA
Main aims:
- Encourage older drivers to review their current driver ability and relevant health issues, such as eyesight and cognitive skills to ensure their driving ability is safe.
- Develop individual skills and life patterns to ensure older drivers are fit to drive safely, for as long as possible.
- Through partner agencies, provide advice/guidance and direct assistance where necessary for older persons to continue to use our roads.
Funding period: 2016/17
Location: Argyll and Bute / Online /Free magazine distributed across Scotland
Key priority: Speed
Organisations: Argyll and Bute Local Authority / INDMedia
Main aims:
- A Scottish biker magazine also developed as a website initiative with the overall aim to provide resources to all motorcyclists helping to improve their knowledge, behaviours and skills, contributing towards a reduction in motorcyclist casualty rates.
Funding period: 2017/18
Location: Scottish Borders
Key priority: Age / Speed
Organisations: Police Scotland / Scottish Fire and Rescue / Scottish Ambulance service / Scottish Borders Council / IAM Road Smart (Institute of Advanced Motorists) / Cleland Volvo
Main aims:
- Drivewise, is designed to reduce the number of casualties on the roads while positively influencing the attitudes and behaviours of drivers and passengers in the Scottish Borders.
- Combining practical and theoretical training for pre, new and mature drivers; Drivewise sets out to address a gap in driver education.
Funding period: 2017/18
Location: Lossiemouth / Moniaive / Mount Florida, Glasgow / TillyDrone, Aberdeen / Inverness
Key priority: Speed / VRU
Organisations: Living Streets
Main aims:
- Living Streets worked with local authorities, community organisations, residents, hard to reach groups and other interest groups to support and develop the role all stakeholders could play in introducing and realising the benefits from lower speed limits.
Funding period: 2017/18
Location: Throughout Scotland
Key Priority: Age / VRU
Organisations: Cycling Scotland / Glasgow City Council
Main aims:
- Practical Cycle Awareness Training courses aim is to develop safer driving practices and promote greater awareness of vulnerable road users, including people cycling, to ultimately promote safer driving behaviours and attitudes.
- The course is specifically designed for candidates with a provisional licence preparing for their driving test.
Funding period: 2017/18
Location: Glasgow
Key priority: Speed / Age / VRU
Organisations: Glasgow City Council / Police Scotland
Main aims:
- The programme aims to raise awareness of road safety, the issue of speeding and inappropriate speed within communities, especially around schools.
- Valuable information and data gathered will investigate the links between road safety and disadvantaged children and those in ethnic minority groups.
DriVR Initiative - A New Perspective on Road Safety
Funding period: 2017/18
Location: Glasgow / Online resource
Key priority: Speed / Age / VRU
Organisation: Safety Cameras Scotland / Police Scotland / Glasgow City Council
Main aims:
- A road safety intervention aimed at school pupils aged 16-18 years to demonstrate road safety consequences as a result of undesirable behavioural choices i.e. distraction, speeding.
- This 50-minute classroom lesson utilises Virtual Reality (VR) to engage with young road users and encourage them to think about making changes to behaviours that would improve their safety when using the road.
Funding period: 2018/19
Location: Throughout Scotland
Key priority: Age
Organisation: RoSPA
Main aims:
- With Scotland’s ageing population and an increasing number of older drivers on our roads, the challenge is to enable older people to drive safely for as long as possible.
- The Destination Drive project will aim to encourage older drivers to review their current driver ability, their individual driving skills and relevant health issues, such as eyesight and cognitive skills to ensure their driving ability is safe for all road users.
Funding period: 2018/19
Location: Borders and Fife
Key priority: Speed / Age / VRU
Organisations: Fife Council Safer Communities / Police Scotland / Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
Main aims:
- This project aims to provide a tri-pronged approach in an effort to reduce serious and fatal road accidents in the Scottish Borders and Fife.
- To deliver educational opportunities to the most vulnerable road users in the area through structured programmes of direct action and the promotion of positive attitudes.
Funding period: 2018/19
Location: North and North East of Scotland.
Key priority: Speed / VRU
Organisations: Police Scotland / Road Safety North East Scotland / Highland Council / Perth and Kinross Community Safety Partnership / Angus Council / Dundee Council / Scottish and Fire Rescue Service.
Main aims:
- The aim of this project is to reduce the high number of motorcycle casualties in the North and North East of Scotland by delivering a bespoke defensive rider training package aimed at improving rider skills and enhancing safety.
- Roadside hazards will be gathered and passed to the roads authority for investigation, contributing to the Safe Systems approach.
- The project is a multi-agency initiative delivered across the North and North East of Scotland, supported by the respective Road and Community Safety Groups.
Funding period: 2018/19
Location: Various
Key priority: Speed / Age / VRU
Organisation: ScORSA
Main aims:
- This project aims to provide a unique facility for SMEs in Scotland to implement, manage and access occupational road risk.
- It also aims to encourage joint working and raise awareness in organisations of the need for action on work related road safety, promote the exchange of information and best practise, and encourage the introduction of technology within fleet users to regulate and recognise the risk posed by speeding.
Funding period: 2019/20
Location: Various
Key priority: Speed / Age / VRU
Organisation: ScORSA
Main aims:
- Continue to enhance and develop the dedicated ScORSA website and actively promote ScORSA activity through engaging with SME community, RoSPA partners and policy influencers such as HSE.
- Offer an online driver profiling service to SME members.
- Undertake research within member organisations and other SME businesses in Scotland.
- Research and develop relevant resources and guidance to improve the safety of those who drive for work and managers involved in MORR.
- Produce a driver/rider safety handbook/leaflet specifically aimed at individuals working in the GIG economy.
- Deliver training opportunities within member organisations on relevant MORR working practices direct to those who drive for work and create, organise and deliver workshops dedicated to improving safe driving policy, practices and processes amongst ScORSA members including an annual seminar.
Funding period: 2020/21
Location: Various
Key priority: Speed / VRU
Organisation: RoSPA
Main aims:
- Identify how communications can be used most effectively to encourage motorcyclists to take further training, particularly those who ride in rural areas.
- Establish the current awareness of and attitudes towards further rider training among motorcyclists.
- Establish the current level of enquiries about and uptake of such training, including which messages on further rider training and message-delivery platforms and methods have the potential to be most effective at reaching motorcyclists.
- Evaluate through a pilot communications campaign the impact of and receptiveness to the chosen messages among motorcyclists.
- Increase the number of motorcyclists enquiring about and taking further rider training and increase levels of awareness of and positive attitudes towards such schemes.
Funding period: 2019/20
Location: Edinburgh / Online
Key priority: Speed / VRU
Organisation: Police Scotland / Screen Education Scotland
Main aims:
- For a group of young people from the North of Edinburgh to produce a short film discouraging their peers from taking part in the theft of or anti-social use of motorcycles.
- The film becomes a re-usable tool for schools, youth groups and other interested organisations in the city to show to their young people to contribute to education on the matter.
- To use the film in North Edinburgh and across the rest of the city and (subsequently) beyond to reduce motorcycle incidents.
- Build stronger relationships between the police and young people/community groups in a traditionally hard to reach area.
- Subsequent reduction in incidents of criminal/anti-social/speeding motorcycle use in Edinburgh.
The following initiatives received funding through the Road Safety Framework Evaluation Fund.
Evaluation of Road Safety Measures from Living Streets Street Audits from 2014 – 2019
Funding Period: 2022-23
Location: Various
Organisation: Living Streets Scotland
Main Aims:
- Assess the adoption of Living Streets’ Street Audit recommendations from 2014-19 across 16 localities in different local authority areas.
- Compare implementation in deprived and non-deprived areas in terms of types of measures and adoption.
- Form an understanding of why measures were / weren’t adopted.
- Re-engage the local authorities to address barriers to implementation, particularly in the most deprived 10% SIMD areas to contribute to relative casualty reduction targets in these areas.
Eddleston A703 Traffic Calming Project
Funding period: 2020/21
Organisation: Scottish Borders Council / Edinburgh Napier University
Main aims and objectives:
- Carry out a literature review into successful traffic calming in rural areas, national and international.
- Conduct a trial on a variety of traffic calming interventions over a two-year period; evaluate each intervention.
- Analyse evaluation data and where successful, seek to roll these out to other settlements in similar situations.
Bikeability Scotland Broader Road Safety Perceptions of 10+ Age Range
Funding period: 2020/21
Organisation: Cycling Scotland
Main aims and objectives:
- Investigate young people’s attitudes to road safety, with particular focus on how these are supported and influenced by Bikeability Scotland.
- Identify the safety concerns and motivations children experience at a crucial transition age where they will have more independence in their travel choices moving from primary to secondary school.
New Driver Early Intervention Scheme
Funding period: 2019/20
Organisation: Police Scotland
Main aims and objectives:
- Change attitudes and behaviours towards speeding and inappropriate driving by increasing the awareness of the dangers and the risks.
- Discuss the attitudes towards speeding along with the long-term consequences of being involved in a collision.
- Continue engagement with multiple organisations who either employ or provide education to individuals.
Motorcycle Safety Strategies in North East Scotland
Funding period: 2020/21
Organisation: Aberdeenshire Council / Robert Gordon University
Main aims and objectives:
- To conduct a broader study of past and present motorcycle specific road safety initiatives, seeking to identify key themes and best practice across the various used.
- Collect data specifically relating to: motorcycle specific signage in NE; BikeSafe; Operation Zenith; Live Fast Die Old; Rider Refinement North.
- Conduct one-to-one interviews with individuals identifying as motorcyclists in NE Scotland.
- Carry out a one-day workshop with partners of Road Safety North East Scotland and present evidence of data collected from motorcyclists.
- Providing evidence-based research to allow financial justification of continued expenditure on targeted road safety initiatives for motorcyclists.
