Behaviour change

In this section you will be able to access, in particular, a number of toolkits which will help you design behaviour change initiatives into walking programmes, ensuring they are complementary to the built environment. From Paths for All’s Behaviour Change manual, to using the Scottish Government’s Individual, Social and Material approach to behaviour change. These toolkits are backed up with evidence and links to the Smarter Choices Programme and other national policies.

Climate and environmental protection

of disabled people would find fewer cars parked on the pavement useful to walk or wheel more.

Source: Walking for everyone

Tags: Climate & Environment

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of Scottish adults said being able to walk to local shops was important when choosing where to live

Source: Paths for All

Tags: Planning, design & safety

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of women were dissatisfied or very dissastified about safety on walking or wheeling routes

Source: Scottish Women's Budget Group

Tags: Community & participation

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say they support actions to encourage more people to walk or cycle instead of driving a car to reduce the UK?s carbon emissions.

Source: Public back action to encourage cycling and public transport

Tags: Active Travel

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Equality Diversity and Inclusion

of local path can be accessed by the most deprived half of society, compared to the 10,351 miles that the least deprived half can access

Source: Ramblers Scotland

Tags: Equalities, Diversity & Inclusion

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the carbon emissions savings that could be made if every journey under three miles in Scotland in 2019 was made by active travel

Source: Sustrans

Tags: Behaviour change

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of soot pollution in the air was reduced outside a school in London through banning parents dropping children off by car

Source: Evening Standard

Tags: Physical, mental and social health

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of drivers are unsure if changes to the Highway Code made two years ago have made the roads safer for pedestrians.

Tags: Active Travel

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People from an ethnic minority

are 25% more likely to be a casualty than white pedestrians

Source: Pedestrian casualties higher among BAME people and in poor areas

Tags: Community & participation

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trips to the outdoors involved walking which is 86% of all trips to the outdoors (SPANS 2020)

Source: Scotland's People and Nature Survey

Tags: Community & participation

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serious long-term health conditions prevented by every day walking, wheeling and cycling in the citites that take part in the Walking and Cycling Index

Source: The Walking and Cycling Index

Tags: Active Travel

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of adults view climate change as an immediate and urgent problem (SHS 2022)

Source: Scottish Household Survey

Tags: Community & participation

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