Reference Centre

This section includes reports, guidance and evaluations to assist organisations, groups and individuals with an interest in road safety.

Road Safety Partnership Plan 2026-2040

This plan sets out a robust governance structure, clear aims, and priorities for reducing road-related harm, and a headline target to significantly lower the number of people killed or seriously injured on our roads by 2040. The Welsh Government together with its partners should follow up with a detailed delivery plan, outlining concrete actions and safety performance indicators to guide our progress.

Welsh Government Information on 20mph Speed Limits

20mph Default Speed Limit Review
of Exceptions: Final Report
2024

Final report and recommendations by the team looking into the setting of exceptions to the default 20mph limit.

Default 20mph Speed Limit on
Restricted Roads: Phase 1
2023

As part of the first phase of the 20mph rollout 8, settlements chose to take part and make their default speed lower. This interim monitoring report for phase 1 is based on data collected up until six months after the final trial area was implemented.

Exceptions to 20mph Default Speed Limits
2023

The new legislation will not apply a blanket speed limit on all roads, it will simply make the speed limit on restricted roads 20mph. Highway authorities have engaged with their local communities to decide which roads should remain at 30mph.

Introducing 20mph Speed Limits
2023

Information on why the Welsh Government is introducing a default 20mph speed limit from 17 September 2023.

The Restricted Roads (20mph Speed Limit) (Wales) Order 2022
2022

The legislation was approved by the Senedd in July 2022.

Traffic Orders & 20mph Public Attitudes Survey
2021

Beaufort was commissioned by the Welsh Government to assess public attitudes and to provide baseline data for a public awareness campaign ahead of the legislative change.

Welsh Government Response to the Recommendations Made in the 20mph Task Force Group Report
2020

The Welsh Government accepts all the Task Force Group recommendations for each of the categories: Legal and Policy, Exceptions, Enforcement, Engineering, Monitoring and evaluation.

Wales Centre for Public Policy
20’s the Limit: How to Encourage Speed Reductions
2020

This report has been prepared to support the Welsh Government’s plan to introduce a 20mph national default speed limit in 2022.

Welsh 20mph Task Force Group Report
2020

A review on reducing the default speed limit on restricted roads to 20mph in Wales and the changes that need to take place.

Welsh Government Guidance

Road Safety Framework for Wales
Covering the period 2013 - 2020

An outline of the road safety targets for Wales and plans on how these will be achieved by 2020.

Active Travel Delivery Plan 2024 to 2027
2024

The Active Travel Delivery Plan aims to increase modal shift by making active travel easier to access, more attractive to use and more inclusive.

Welsh Transport Appraisal Guidance (WelTAG)
2024

WelTAG should be used in the development and appraisal of transport proposals promoted or funded by Welsh Government.

Active Travel Act Guidance
The Wales Transport Strategy
2021

Guidance to help local authorities to plan, design and deliver high quality walking and cycling routes across Wales.

Llwybr Newydd
The Wales Transport Strategy
2021

The new strategy - the result of a major consultation over the last year - aims to encourage people out of their cars, with a new target for 45 per cent of journeys to be by sustainable means across Wales by 2045, up from 32 per cent currently.

Welsh Pavement Parking
Task Force Group Report
2020

A report on options to tackle pavement parking in Wales.

Low Carbon Delivery Plan 2: Engagement Plan
2020

Welsh Government Engagement Approach for Low Carbon Delivery Plan 2. Also describes how this will be undertaken in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prosperity for All: A Low Carbon Wales
2019

This Plan sets out the Welsh Government’s approach to cut emissions and increase efficiency in a way that maximises wider benefits for Wales, ensuring a fairer and healthier society.

Review of the Road Safety Framework for Wales
2018

Recommendations to improve the Road Safety Framework for Wales and progress made so far.

All-Wales Travel Behaviour Code Statutory Guidance
2017

Advice on how learners should behave to have a safe journey when travelling to and from school.

Environment (Wales) Act 2016
2016

The Act sets out the approach for the sustainable management of natural resources in Wales, which will help to mitigate for and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Active Travel Action Plan
2016

The Action Plan outlines what will be done in Wales to enable people to walk or cycle more.

Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act
2015

This Act is about improving the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales.

Evaluations

Streetwise
2021

Streetwise is Cardiff Council's road safety initiative to educate those aged 10-13 about Road Safety issues surrounding transition to High School.

Mature Driving Course
2019

Evaluated by Brainbox Research for Dyfed-Powys Police, the Mature Driving Course aims to enable older drivers to make informed decisions about their driving future.

Active Travel Under 7 Programme
2019

Monmouthshire County Council's evaluation presents the findings from the workshop ‘be bright be seen’ which, to date, has been delivered to 8 schools and over 500 children in Monmouthshire.