The effect of coloured surfacing on drivers' compliance with bus and cycle lanes. Unpublished Honours Degree Final Year Project, School of the Built Environment, Napier University.

This study focuses on the effect of coloured surfacing on car driver compliance with cycle and bus lanes in Edinburgh city. The City Council of Edinburgh has been progressive in developing a strategy to increase cycling and public transport. Edinburgh City Council first published its Local Transport Strategy in 2000 a document approved by both Council and the Scottish Executive. This Strategy was updated in 2004 and the current strategy will run until 2007. Edinburgh City Council aspires to have a transport system that is accessible to all and serves all. This transport system should contribute to better health, safety and quality of life, particularly for children, and elderly and disabled people. The transport system should support a strong, sustainable local economy. As part of this strategy Edinburgh city council aims to reduce the congestion created in the city by car drivers by attempting to increase the proportion of journeys made by public transport or cycling. To increase the use of buses Edinburgh City Council propose to have an increase in the number of Greenways in the city leading to a reduction in travel times and to increase cycle use they propose to have cycle lanes or paths on all main roads with speed limits over 20 mph and no bus lanes. They also propose to improve safety for all road and transport users for cyclists this could include the colouring of cycle lanes. It was the objective of this study to find out whether car drivers were more likely to comply with coloured cycle and bus lanes over those which are uncoloured and to consider the attitudes of cyclists and car drivers towards coloured and uncoloured cycle lanes. The method which was used to achieve results on how car drivers complied with cycle and bus lanes was by carrying out observation surveys of a number of different areas with coloured and uncoloured cycle and bus lanes. To achieve results on the attitudes and behaviour of car drivers and cyclists towards coloured and uncoloured cycle and bus lanes a questionnaire of car drivers and a questionnaire of cyclists were carried out. (Author/publisher)