Organisation
Road Safety Foundation
Amount awarded
£48,756
Completed
2022
Uploaded to Knowledge Centre
10 January 2023
In 2021, The Road Safety Trust funded the Road Safety Foundation to develop an Active Travel Tool, which aims to help UK road authorities evaluate active travel facilities for both safety according to Safe System principles and age and ability.
The tool allows a spot evaluation of the different available facilities for a given road, rather than a network or route-based evaluation that can be achieved using the full International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) methodology as detailed on the iRAP website1 or CycleRAP.
The tool uses safety Star Ratings, together with an age and ability criteria, to compare bicycle and pedestrian facilities such as footways, crossings and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTN).
It is envisaged that the tool will be used to support practitioners in their decision making and help communication of safety and Level of Traffic Stress (LTS) considerations to road safety stakeholders and the public.
The Active Travel Tool allows practitioners to see how different facilities for cycling and walking would change the safety Star Ratings for pedestrians and cyclists under different conditions of speed and flow.
Click on the link below to access the final report and the Active Travel Tool itself:
https://www.roadsafetytrust.org.uk/small-grants-awarded/road-safety-foundation