Transport Scotland has released a Cycling Action Plan for Scotland (CAPS) 2017 document, which reveals details about how the Scottish Government, local authorities could achieve the challenging shared vision for cycling.

CAPS 2017 outlines the Scottish Government’s commitment to maintain funding for active travel for the remainder of this Parliament, as stated in the Programme for Government.

The document also includes information about Active Travel Task Force, which will address all the issues related to the walking and cycling infrastructure projects in Scotland.

It also focuses on the partnership and integration public transport, including Scotrail, bus / coach operators and Regional Transport Partnerships (RTPs).

The other activities include development of active travel hubs across Scotland by utilising European Regional Development Funding and continued support to educational campaigns aimed at all road users.

Scotland Minister for Transport and The Islands Humza Yousaf said: “This revised Cycling Action Plan for Scotland (CAPS) is the most progressive, representing six years of shared work by partners and an unshakable commitment to the 2020 vision.

“However, we cannot be complacent and reaching the vision will be challenging which is why we all need to re-double efforts in delivering the actions in this document.

"We look forward to developing more ambitious, innovative approaches underpinned by partnership working, to make Scotland a more active and safe nation."

“Over the next four years we look forward to developing more ambitious, innovative approaches underpinned by partnership working, to make Scotland a more active and safe nation.

“We will meet the Programme for Government commitment to maintain the budget for active travel at record levels with planned investment to 2021.”

Yousaf recently announced the introduction of a new Active Travel Taskforce which will help to drive forward ambitious segregated cycling paths and public realm improvements for pedestrians.