Active Travel Infrastructure Fund 2024/25
Overview
Transport Scotland is pleased to invite Local Authorities, Regional Transport Partnerships and National Park Authorities to apply for funding for the 2024/25 Active Travel Infrastructure Fund (ATIF), this is formerly known as the Active Travel Transformation Fund.
The ATIF aims to fund schemes which contribute to meeting the Scottish Government’s vision that ‘by 2030 people will make walking, wheeling and cycling their most popular choice for short journeys'.
Please see below for further guidance on the scheme types that the Active Travel Infrastructure Fund aims to fund:
Active Travel Infrastructure Fund 2024/25
Please see a list below of some examples of scheme types for which the Active Travel Infrastructure Fund will consider funding construction.
Disclaimer: The list below is not comprehensive and it is recognised that some schemes will not fit neatly into a single category – the list is intended to be illustrative rather than exhaustive.
Scheme categorisation |
Complexity |
What does this look like? |
New Segregated Cycleway (Permanent) |
High |
Urban, high density, complex junctions, side roads; high quality segregated connecting nearby communities. Schemes involving land acquisition |
Medium |
Suburban, medium density, fewer junctions/turning movements |
|
Low |
New facility in low density location, few/no junctions |
|
New junction treatment |
High |
Separate phases and spaces for all AT movements, protected junctions |
Medium |
Protection of key movements for walking, wheeling and cycling across a junction e.g. continuous footways or cycleways |
|
Low |
Accessibility, line of sight and general safety improvements such as kerb buildouts |
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New permanent footway
|
High |
Large-scale town centre accessibility improvements such as pedestrianisation including area-wide traffic and car parking removal; new rural footway connecting facilities/ communities |
Medium |
Conversion of carriageway to footway on a medium to large scale |
|
Low |
Addressing severance in existing walking routes. New rural footway alongside carriageway |
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New shared use (walking & cycling) facilities
|
Low |
Generally only acceptable if tackling severance in an existing walking/cycling network in urban areas or providing a rural connection alternative to hostile conditions OR when creating wider public realm or recreational areas. |
Installing physical protection to make an existing cycle or footway route safer
|
Medium |
Use of permanent kerbs, bollards, side road treatments, junction work |
Low |
Installation of cycle lane separators (e.g. wands, orcas etc), Use of bollards or other physical measures to protect existing infrastructure from being parked on. |
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Programmes of Improvements / minor works to make an existing walking/cycle route safer or more convenient
|
Medium/High |
Area wide accessibility improvements including use of dropped kerbs, permanent kerbs, side road treatments, junction work, speed limit reduction, lighting and surfacing improvements. |
Low |
Installation of cycle lane or footway separators (e.g. wands or thermoplastic kerbs), lowered speed limits (as part of wider scheme) |
|
Area-wide traffic management (e.g. modal filtering using ANPR, bollards, robust planters or similar)
|
High |
Large scale, area-wide traffic removal in a highly populated/town centre location OR very large scale fast/heavy traffic removal from rural ‘quiet lanes’ |
Medium |
Area-wide through traffic removal on a smaller/less ambitious scale or widespread urban greening or tree planting schemes particularly where shade and temperature improvements are anticipated. |
|
Low |
Selective road closures or replacing some on-street car parking with SuDS or parklets |
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Provision of secure cycle parking facilities
|
Medium |
Large-scale provision of publicly accessible on-street cycle parking or secure parking at schools/workplaces/hospitals/transport interchanges Widespread repurposing of kerbside carriageway space for the provision of secure on-street cycling parking in residential areas |
Low |
Sheffield/Hornsey stands or similar in public places |
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New and upgraded road crossings
|
High |
Major active travel structures over significant watercourses, railway, or roads |
Medium |
Crossing addresses a severance issue and will create a continuous walking/wheeling/cycling route (e.g. new signalised crossing of a main road between LTN cells) |
|
Low |
E.g. Introducing a pedestrian phase on existing signalised crossing, only if part of high propensity walking route or improving existing crossings (e.g. from a signalised to a zebra) |
|
School Streets / Safer Routes to School
|
High |
Timed or permanent closure on an area-wide basis and/or including a bus route and / or other coordinated series of supply and demand based measures at multiple schools or alteration of school entrance/exit layout |
Medium |
Routes to school that convert high volumes of journeys to AT relative to the cost of the scheme and needs of the local area through installation of high quality paths / cycle paths |
|
Low |
Timed closure of single minor road outside a school, removal of parking |
|
Rapid Build Projects |
High |
Creation of temporary segregated cycleways which are to be retained in the short term which will be upgraded to permanent layouts Creation of experimental low traffic neighbourhoods which will be upgraded to permanent layouts |
Medium |
A series of linked interventions which deal with barriers to walking, wheeling and cycling to improve network coherence, including crossings and modal filters |
|
Low |
Isolated interventions such as parklets, individual crossings and individual modal filters |
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Targeted Speed Reduction Measures |
High |
Speed reduction measures such as kerb build-outs, speed cushions, speed cameras |
Barrier Removal |
Medium |
Organisation has developed plans for the systematic review and removal of barriers on footways, cycle tracks and shared use paths so they are accessible to all |
Types of schemes that will not be viewed favourably |
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