Complete Streets, as a transportation decision-making approach, has gained popularity as a low-cost way to achieve multiple community goals: reducing crashes and injuries, supporting economic development, and encouraging multimodal travel. A Complete Streets approach directs transportation professionals to consistently plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain a community's transportation network to support travel by foot, assistive device, bicycle, public transportation vehicle, car, and truck. More than 700 states, regions, counties, cities, and towns in the US have committed to this approach through a Complete Streets policy. Most importantly, this approach is being used to create safer transportation systems. As the Complete Streets movement has grown, more Complete Streets projects are being built across the US with real-world data about their transportation and economic outcomes. Compared to conventional transportation projects, Complete Streets projects were remarkably affordable to achieve broad community goals. In terms of economic returns, the limited data available suggests Complete Streets projects were related to broader economic gains like increased employment and higher property values.
Safer Streets, Stronger Economies: Complete Streets Project Outcomes From Across the United States
ITE journal ; 85 , 6
2015
Article (Journal)
English
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