A Motorcycle Safety and Transport Policy Framework
In parallel with this work several other individual activities took place. These included:
- The IHE ‘Motorcycle Guidelines’ for road traffic engineers (revised 2014)
- TfL’s motorcycle group. Work was done on advanced stop line access by motorcycles, bus lane access, publicity, safety action plans, secure parking and congestion charging
- TfL’s involvement with the EU/ACEM eSUM project
- Parallel work in the EU, with ACEM guidelines on infrastructure, plus several country strategies for motorcycling around Europe
- The development of ‘BikeSafe’
- A large number of MCIA initiatives related to safety and rider improvement, including ‘The Edge’ (rider assessment) and two DVDs aimed at improving safety among different motorcycling demographics
- DfT research and statistical analysis (also TfL)
- DVSA rider training and licensing developments
- UK implementation of EU licence regulations
- Technical regulatory work via the EU (Whole Vehicle Type Approval)
- PPE activities and research
- EC/ACEM in depth research into daytime lights
- DfT road safety ‘small grant’ many of which were focussed on motorcycle safety
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