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Moving Beyond Streets for Cars:

Where to go from here?

Madeline BrozenProgram 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

Comparison

How are cities using new

street performance

measurements?

New York City

NYC Environmental review

includes extensive pedestrian

measures

Corner analysis

Crosswalk

analysis

Sidewalk

analysis

Subway stairwell

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 school63% 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.”