The Foundation has received funding worth almost £200,000 from the Road Safety Trust for the project, which will involve extending a proven tool for rural road safety management into the urban context.

“The improved tools will help authorities to better analyse their urban road networks and identify cost effective improvements targeted at reducing fatal and serious injuries,” said the Road Safety Foundation’s engineering director Kate Fuller.

She added that the project will provide councils with “a greater suite of evidence based counter measure options” to implement safer roads investment plans for urban streets, particularly those targeted at vulnerable groups.

The Road Safety Foundation will work in partnership with the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP), four local authorities and the charity Brake to develop the new resource.

“This is an exciting project which will ensure that the latest thinking and innovation for safety measures for vulnerable road users in urban environments are fully embedded within the iRAP tools,” added Kate Fuller.

Road Safety Trust chief executive Sally Lines commented: “We are pleased to be able to provide the Road Safety Foundation with funding to help achieve our vision of zero deaths and serious injuries on UK roads. We want to make the roads safer for all users in particular vulnerable road users which includes pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.”