Resources

Executive summary, including findings and recommendations, from our 2020 access to bikes report. 

Almost 200 organisations run access to bikes schemes in Scotland, which include fleets of pool bikes, bike loans for events, public bike hire, cycle to work schemes and bike recycling schemes. Find out more in our 2020 report. 

Cycling and active travel has a key role in achieving a Just Transition to net-zero emissions and can help to address the overwhelming challenges of the climate emergency.

Measuring the levels of cycling across Scotland during the pandemic.

Focused on electric scooters (escooters), as the micromobility mode most of relevance but many of the principles apply to other forms of micromobility as well.

We welcome the vision set for the city of Edinburgh but acknowledge existing challenges

Our submission comments on both Scottish Planning Policy (SPP) and the National Planning Framework Housing Technical Discussion Paper.   

The overwhelming challenges presented by the climate emergency are the top priority for STPR2 decisions.

We agree with the primary objective of the LEZs as outlined in the consultation paper. It is important that LEZs align to current policy on improving air quality, and emissions reduction targets

This Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) review combines analysis of reported cycling casualties in Scotland over a 23-year period from 1995-2018, with a literature review of under-reporting of casualties and near misses.

We welcome the inclusion of active travel within the proposed work programme. However, despite this, we understand that sheds and storage containers for bike storage, are/continue to be included in the household development grouping. We feel it is more appropriate for them to be included in the active travel category and are disappointed to note that there are no plans to extend PDRs to storage facilities in front gardens.