Evaluating the Impact of Complete Streets Initiatives
Complete Streets (CS) is an emerging urban planning paradigm that strives to balance the needs of pedestrians and bicyclists with those of automobile drivers and transit users. Despite the recognized importance of CS project tracking and outcomes measurement, municipalities struggle to gather such data systematically. In order to accumulate program evaluation data, municipalities need guidance regarding efficient measurement tools that capture the outputs and impacts of their CS projects. This compendium is an attempt to address that need. The authors sought state-of-practice tools and measurement approaches from the literature on Complete Streets as well as the related fields of sustainability, livability, and health. Rather than provide an exhaustive list of performance measures, the intent was to offer a snapshot of current measurement practices. This report thus provides a starting point for municipalities seeking to create a “report card” of indicators that demonstrate the impact of their local Complete Streets initiatives. The chapters describe measures that assess seven areas of impact: bicycle/pedestrian, citizen feedback, economic, environmental, health, multi-modal level of service, and safety.
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Corporate Authors:
Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA)
School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo
The State University of New York
Buffalo, NY United States 14214-3087GoBike Buffalo
640 Ellicott Street, Suite 447
Buffalo, NY United States 14203 -
Authors:
- Ranahan, Molly E
- Lenker, James A
- Maisel, Jordana L
- Publication Date: 2014
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: 25p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bicycling; Complete streets; Economic impacts; Environmental impacts; Evaluation and assessment; Health; Level of service; Literature reviews; Multimodal transportation; Pedestrians; Performance measurement; Quality of life; Safety; State of the practice; Sustainable development
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01551327
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 27 2015 11:22AM