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Network Planning Tool for Scotland

The Network Planning Tool for Scotland (NPT Scotland, hosted at www.npt.scot) is a web application for strategic cycle network planning.

Note the results of the Commute layer are based on the 2011 Census travel to work data and results for other trip purposes are based on pre-pandemic data. Users should be aware that the results are model-based estimates and that patterns have changed since the pandemic. Future versions of the tool will include more recent Census and other datasets when they become available.

The results are publicly available. The main intended audience is local authorities undertaking cycle network planning to support evidence-based and transparent investment, scheme location and design decisions.

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Simplified route network

Trip purpose

Scenario

Network type

Line colour

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Cycle trips per day
Gradient (%)
Cycle friendliness (%)

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Automatically-generated coherent network in urban areas connecting key origins and destinations with relatively direct routes.

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Secondary

Local Access

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Data on existing infrastructure, speed limits, volumes and estimated Cycling Level of Service (LoS), as per the Cycling by Design guidance.

Cycle infrastructure types info

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Street space categories in relation to guidance from Cycling by Design guidance. These categories are based on the width of the kerb-to-kerb space (within carriageway) or the width of the combined corridor (including footways and verges).

Infrastructure scenario

Not enough space

Absolute minimum

Desirable minimum

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Dasymetric

Schools

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Other

Wards

Scottish Parliament Constituencies

Local Authorities

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	Baseline	Go Dutch	Ebikes
All	{all_fastest_bicycle}	{all_fastest_bicycle_go_dutch}	{all_fastest_bicycle_ebike}
Commute	{commute_fastest_bicycle}	{commute_fastest_bicycle_go_dutch}	{commute_fastest_bicycle_ebike}
Primary	{primary_fastest_bicycle}	{primary_fastest_bicycle_go_dutch}	{primary_fastest_bicycle_ebike}
Secondary	{secondary_fastest_bicycle}	{secondary_fastest_bicycle_go_dutch}	{secondary_fastest_bicycle_ebike}
Utility	{utility_fastest_bicycle}	{utility_fastest_bicycle_go_dutch}	{utility_fastest_bicycle_ebike}

	Baseline	Go Dutch	Ebikes
All	{all_quietest_bicycle}	{all_quietest_bicycle_go_dutch}	{all_quietest_bicycle_ebike}
Commute	{commute_quietest_bicycle}	{commute_quietest_bicycle_go_dutch}	{commute_quietest_bicycle_ebike}
Primary	{primary_quietest_bicycle}	{primary_quietest_bicycle_go_dutch}	{primary_quietest_bicycle_ebike}
Secondary	{secondary_quietest_bicycle}	{secondary_quietest_bicycle_go_dutch}	{secondary_quietest_bicycle_ebike}
Utility	{utility_quietest_bicycle}	{utility_quietest_bicycle_go_dutch}	{utility_quietest_bicycle_ebike}

Highway type	{highway}
Cycle infrastructure	{Infrastructure type}
Average daily motor traffic	{Traffic volume category}
Speed limit	{Speed limit}mph
Level of Service	{Level of Service}

Network Planning Tool for Scotland

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Summary

All network details:

Fast/Direct network

Quiet/Indirect network