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Moving Beyond Streets for Cars - Madeline Brozen - UCLA - Lee Schipper Memorial Scholar- Transforming Transportation 2015
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New ways of planning, designing, and evaluating our streets can better support sustainable transport, biking, and walking. Presented by Madeline Brozen at Transforming Transportation 2015. Read more: http://bit.ly/XwknYX Transforming Transportation 2015: Smart Cities for Shared Prosperity is the annual conference co-organized by the World Resources Institute and the World Bank.
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Moving Beyond Streets for Cars - Madeline Brozen - UCLA - Lee Schipper Memorial Scholar- Transforming Transportation 2015
- www.TransformingTransportation.org Moving Beyond Streets for Cars: Where to go from here? Madeline Brozen Program Manager, Complete Streets Initiative, UCLA, and 2014 Lee Schipper Memorial Scholar Presented at Transforming Transportation 2015
- Moving beyond streets for cars: Where to go from here? Madeline Brozen Transforming Transportation January 2015
- Streets are complex.
- But our measurement tools do not reflect this complexity Simply measuring throughput and delay
- Level of Service does not measure Quality of walking Safety of bicycling Business activity Traveler satisfaction Travel time reliability Person throughput Greenhouse gas emissions Water capture rates Social connections Bicycling comfort Enjoyment Public space allotment Bicycle volumes Modal splits Cycling risk Health benefits Bus speeds Street lighting
- The 2010 Highway Capacity Manual added bicycle and pedestrian measures but they are problematic.
- New York City Long Beach, CA San Francisco Denver
- Danish LOS Tool can evaluate new treatments, but… …is still complex and difficult.
- Sensitivity
- How are cities using new street performance measurements?
- New York City
- NYC Environmental review includes extensive pedestrian measures Corner analysis Crosswalk analysis Sidewalk analysis
- If a development has significant impact on pedestrian LOS, what happens?
- “We always start with the basics of safety…We are looking for multiple mobility strategies so it is not just about moving cars.”
- Copenhagen 58% of all children cycle to school 63% of all members of the parliament bike to work 1.27 million km biked daily (1,000 times around the world)
- “How does Copenhagen evaluate street performance broadly?” “Basically, we don’t.”
Editor's Notes
- Fix the shadow
- “I think a lot of it has to do with outdated design guidance and standards that are 50 years old. [This system] rewards streets and cities for wide and fast design.. What is appropriate for airplane tarmacs is not appropriate for city streets.” But are measurement tools are not comprensive – they don’t measure many things.
- LOS predominate use is in traffic analysis studies, particuarly for new development. If that development is measured by the impact on cars, and any development will add all car trips to the network, there will be a capacity issue. So in response the developer is asked to widen the roadway to handle all those new trips This creates more space and therefore induces demand meaning more cars and driving. Then next time a new development comes in, the cycle starts over again
- What if rather than vehicles alone, we measured development by its impact on other things that level of service doesn’t measure? How many more people are going to be biking, or riding transit or how will this contribute economicaly. Therefore the defacto standard is all that must be measured on our streets are vehicle movements and how do sustainable modes like walking, biking and transit fit in?
- 1. Testing from non-urban places 2. New treatments can’t be evaluated 3. Complex and difficult
- Remove acronym LOS
- We should ask them to come up with a lot, you know better mitigations measures or improvement measures….They want use every single inch of their property…You don’t have a lot of mitigation measures for the pedestrian impact at the cross walk, if you have significant adverse impact [at a] cross walk, what you are going to do? We are going to ask them to reallocate signal timing, widen the cross walk. What other improvement measures you can come with? There is nothing, I don’t know...
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