Conclusion

Although we have seen a decrease in fatalities, 2023 has undoubtedly been a challenging time for road safety in Scotland, with serious and overall casualties 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.