EMBARGOED UNTIL: 24 August 2018, 00:00
- Road Safety Framework Fund to encourage innovative ideas
- A new round of funding has been launched to further improve
road safety in Scotland.
The £500k Road Safety Framework Fund aims to find innovative
ideas to encourage driving at appropriate speeds, tackle issues
affecting pre and existing drivers, and better protect vulnerable
road users, such as cyclists and pedestrians.
The move was announced by Cabinet Secretary for Transport,
Infrastructure and Connectivity to support Scotland’s Road
Safety Framework to 2020. This seeks to steadily reduce the
numbers of people killed and seriously injured on our roads.
Applications are welcome from any organisation across Scotland
looking to support road safety, before the closing date of 9
November 2018.
Mr Matheson said:
“Partnership working is at the heart of everything we do and is
key to supporting the delivery of our framework targets but we
can’t do this on our own. We want to encourage applications which
are innovative and demonstrate thinking outside the box so we can
continue to push for greater safety on our roads.
“We owe it to future generations to keep striving for better road
safety today so we can take another step closer to our vision of
no-one being killed on Scotland’s road and a greatly reduced
injury rate.”
Notes to editors
- This fund is not intended for infrastructure projects
- Projects should take between six months and a year to
complete and will only receive funding if they contribute
directly to road safety outcomes
- Projects which receive funding must be independently
evaluated to assess whether they have realised their objectives
- All projects must be match funded to a minimum of 50 per cent
of the total cost although lesser match funding will be
considered if a project offers significant value to the Framework
initiatives
- All projects must remain fully sustainable once Transport
Scotland funding has concluded unless short term in nature.
- The fund opens on 27 August and will close on 9 November 2018
- Applications will be ranked according to the ones which are
deemed to be the most beneficial to the road safety framework.
- Scotland’s Road Safety Framework to 2020 features 96
commitments to create safer roads in Scotland.
- The Fund seeks to target Priority Focus Areas in the Road
Safety Framework for 2020, with the following outcomes:
- Speed – increasing the number of vehicles travelling at
appropriate speeds to help reduce road casualty numbers
- Motorcyclists – improve safety for motorcyclists by reducing
number suffering injury accidents
- Age (pre-drivers) – improve knowledge, positive attitudes and
safer behaviours on road safety
- Age (17-25) – increase safer driving behaviours after passing
test
- Age (older drivers) – increase awareness and knowledge
capability of older drivers and families so can make informed
choices about safe driving
- Cyclists/Pedestrians – reduce casualties through good design,
speed management, high awareness of and compliance with road
traffic laws and safe practices by all road users
