Road Safety Development

Glasgow has a statutory duty under section 39 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to provide a road safety service which must include measures to promote road safety through education, training and publicity and to undertake studies into road traffic collisions and take steps to reduce and prevent them.

In 2010 the Scottish Government set new casualty reduction targets to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on Scotland's roads. Over the past decade we have made significant investment in our road safety service and casualty figures are now at their lowest ever on record.

For 2030 Glasgow City Council has set out its own vision, which is to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI) on Glasgow's roads to ZERO by 2030.

National Targets

The Scottish Government has also set national targets which include:

• 50% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI)
• 60% reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured (KSI)
• 40% reduction pedestrian (KSI)
• 20% reduction cyclist (KSI)
• 30% reduction motorcyclist (KSI)
• 20% reduction people aged 70 and over (KSI)
• 70% reduction people aged 17-25 (KSI)

Safe System

In order to meet our targets Glasgow has adopted the Safe System approach to road safety.

Safe systems is an approach to road safety management, based on the principle that our life and health should not be compromised by our need to travel. No level of death or serious injury is acceptable in our road transport network.

The Safe System approach has five pillars of action:

• Safe road use.
• Safe vehicles.
• Safe speeds.
• Safe roads and roadsides.
• Post-crash response.