A Motorcycle Safety and Transport Policy Framework

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Theme	Objectives
Theme 1	The introduction of compulsory road safety education within schools. Road safety professionals for all modes agree that starting to learn the lessons relating to safe road use should start at a much earlier age.
	A single generic theory test aimed at all road users, focussing on the theory of using the road, regardless of the mode choice
	A revised hazard perception test that uses CGI technology to demonstrate the main causation factors of KSIs for vulnerable road users. This will increase awareness across all vehicle users
	Compulsory road safety education resulting in a theory test certificate
	A call for a theory test pass prior to the acquisition of a provisional licence
	Better and more balanced public information
	Motorcycles fully integrated within transport policy
	A safer and less vulnerable roads environment for motorcycles
	Better infrastructure facilities
Theme 2	Reduce rider casualties
	Enforcement of highway law (especially for those who can’t be reached through education)
	Education to follow enforcement
	Simplify access to motorcycle training and testing regime
	Raise standards of riding (training to a higher level than a test where all reach the same standard)
	Reverse the increase in people avoiding taking a test
	Raise awareness, both among riders and other road users
	Improve quality of pre-test and post-test training. Improve public confidence
	Improve CBT and learner rider safety
	Establish motorcycle community support for aims. Create wider knowledge among riders
	Improve uptake of post-test training, create safer riders and drivers, encourage skills development
	Secure BikeSafe’s position as acknowledged best practice in rider assessment
Theme 3	To decrease rider vulnerability through policy support and greater awareness on the public highway
	To help reduce traffic congestion and pollution
	To improve transport efficiency and economy. To reduce emissions from road transport
	To improve departmental knowledge and expertise about motorcycles and to address long-held institutional attitudes and opinions about motorcycles
	To create better policy making that can help improve motorcycle rider safety and allow government and society to benefit from the motorcycle opportunity
	To improve the ability of government transport policy to deliver core objectives
Theme 4	By providing a safer road network for motorcyclists, reduce the number of collisions involving PTWs
	Where collisions do occur, to reduce the seriousness of the resulting injury
	Ensure that when we improve our roads, the latest developments in safer motorcycle infrastructure are considered
	Raise awareness and promote use of motorcycle safety guidance for road traffic engineers (such as the IHE Guidelines for Motorcycling, 2014), and seek to ensure that established best practice and emerging technology is considered in future guidance on road design, construction and maintenance
	Seek to secure appropriate investment in motorcycle safety thereby improving safety and making motorcycling a more accessible and viable transport solution
Theme 5	Improve the range of transport mobility options for the public
	Increase uptake of motorcycles as lower congesting and polluting vehicles
	Encourage development of the sector to improve transport choice
	Improving knowledge of the ‘motorcycle economy'
Theme 6	To bring greater public and governmental confidence to motorcycling and the industry
	Generate new markets with commuter riding as its founding basis
	Continue to make product improvements in both safety and consumer usability
Theme 7	To create a full working partnership with cycling
	To develop the 0-30 mile mobility paradigm
	To improve citizen mobility choice
	To reduce conflict between cyclists and motorcyclists
	To make progress in shared areas of interest

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