EQUITABLE COMPLETE STREETS: Data and Methods for Optimal Design Implementation

The Complete Streets concept references roads designed to accommodate: (1) diverse modes, including walking, cycling, public transit, and automobile; (2) different users, e.g., affluent and low-income individuals, people with disabilities, and senior citizens; (3) and a mix of land uses such as office, retail, businesses, and residential to ensure streets are safe, balanced and inclusively support diverse economic, cultural and environmental uses. Today most of our streets are poorly designed and do not offer safe places to walk, bike, or take public transportation. Such streets are particularly dangerous for disadvantaged segments of the population, including people of color, older adults, children, and those living in low-income communities. Successful Complete Streets projects prioritize multi-modal transport systems and have been demonstrated to be effective in fostering more livable communities, increasing equity and improving public health. This project analyzes different components of Complete Streets design and use with the goal of creating fast, low-cost, and high impact (transportation) changes in our communities.

• Record URL:
  https://www.morgan.edu/school_of_engineering/research_centers/urban_mobility_and_equity_center/research/new_research/equitable_complete_streets.html

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $180000
• Contract Numbers:

  69A435517477123

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Urban Mobility & Equity Center

  Morgan State University
  Baltimore, MD  United States  21251
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Maryland, College Park

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  College Park, MD  United States  20742

  Morgan State University

  1700 E. Coldspring Lane
  Baltimore, Maryland  United States  21251
• Principal Investigators:

  Cirillo, Cinzia

  Jeihani, Mansoureh

  Schonfeld, Paul

• Start Date: 20200713
• Expected Completion Date: 20220228
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Complete streets; Equity (Justice); Highway design; Land use planning; Multimodal transportation; Optimization; Transportation disadvantaged persons
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01744595
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Urban Mobility & Equity Center
• Contract Numbers: 69A435517477123
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 1 2020 9:26AM