Evidence collection

Highway Code Awareness Research

Progressive Partnership were commissioned to run a representative sample survey of adults in Scotland with driving experience. Progressive Partnership has collected the most recent RITS data for Transport Scotland, and this experience was used to help develop a question set and methodology.

A 10-minute online survey was distributed to people across Scotland who drove regularly (at least once a week).

A total of 519 responses were collected between 18^th September and 4^th October 2023. This provided a dataset with an approximate margin of error of between +/- 0.86% to +/- 4.30% calculated at the 95% confidence level (market research industry standard).

Road User Junction Interaction Analysis

Street Systems were identified to provide video studies across four sites in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Living Streets worked with Street Systems on their recently published report into Inclusive Design at Continuous Footways, and similar capture technology was used. Sites were selected featuring a mixture of on-road cycle lanes, without additional pavement treatment, to provide a contrast to earlier research.

Street observation equipment was installed to automatically collect data between the 11^th and 16^th October 2023. Across the four sites, 1,205 interactions were captured. Cycling Scotland appointed staff resources to review and categorise the interactions as relevant to the review. Due to the complexities of the road layout at one of the Edinburgh sites, the decision was taken not to include interactions in the study. 354 relevant interactions were identified as relevant. These were categorized using methodology adapted from Living Streets earlier research.