Download or read book A Systematic Review of Complete Streets Case Studies to Identify Essential Components for Moving from Policy Adoption to Policy Implementation written by Mikayla Charles and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Streets from Policy to Project written by Carissa Schively Slotterback and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete streets is emerging as an influential movement in transportation planning, design, and engineering. This guidebook, with accompanying case studies, explores the variety of ways in which complete streets is conceptualized and institutionalized by various jurisdictions. It offers practical and applicable insights for jurisdictions in Minnesota and elsewhere. The research focused on best practices in 11 locations across the nation: Albert Lea, Minnesota; Arlington County, Virginia; Boulder, Colorado; Charlotte, North Carolina; Columbus, Ohio; Dubuque, Iowa; Fargo-Moorhead, North Dakota/Minnesota; Hennepin County, Minnesota; Madison, Wisconsin; New Haven, Connecticut; and Rochester, Minnesota. The guidebook is informed by an analysis of multiple data sources from each jurisdiction. The authors conducted a review of key documents (e.g., plans, policies, design guidelines), site visits, photo documentation, and in-depth interviews with more than 100 key informants. Six best practice areas emerged through the analysis: (1) framing and positioning, (2) institutionalizing complete streets, (3) analysis and evaluation, (4) project delivery and construction, (5) promotion and education, and (6) funding. The six best practice areas are described in detail and illustrated by examples from the case locations. The guidebook concludes with an appendix of complete streets case reports that offer additional details about each of the 11 case jurisdictions.
Download or read book Complete Streets written by Barbara A. McCann and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Complete streets serve everyone - pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, and drivers - and they take into account the needs of people with disabilities, older people, and children. The complete streets movement seeks to change the way transportation agencies and communities approach every street project and ensure safety, convenience, and accessibility for all. At the heart of the complete streets movement are important political, policy, and procedural changes. This best policy and implementation practices manual explores what communities across the country have learned when implementing their complete streets vision."--Introduction.
Download or read book Evaluation of Complete Streets Policy Implementation by Metropolitan Planning Organizations written by Tara M. Tolford and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning written by Carl Patton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated in its 3rd edition, Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning presents quickly applied methods for analyzing and resolving planning and policy issues at state, regional, and urban levels. Divided into two parts, Methods which presents quick methods in nine chapters and is organized around the steps in the policy analysis process, and Cases which presents seven policy cases, ranging in degree of complexity, the text provides readers with the resources they need for effective policy planning and analysis. Quantitative and qualitative methods are systematically combined to address policy dilemmas and urban planning problems. Readers and analysts utilizing this text gain comprehensive skills and background needed to impact public policy.
Download or read book The Impact of Complete Streets Policies on Individual Well Being written by Margaret Pursley and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the literature on the impact of Complete Streets policies on individual well-being so that policy-makers can fully understand the outcomes of the polices they adopt. For the purposes of this paper, well-being is defined as work-life balance, income, social capital, and health outcomes. The empirical strategy, using fixed effects and difference-in-differences approaches to analyze American Community Survey and National Complete Streets Coalition data, attempts to show how Complete Streets policies and projects affect well-being outcomes including income and wage, usual hours worked per week, travel time to work, spousal relationship, and self-care difficulty in the past six months. The results of the Complete Streets policy analysis at the city-level were insignificant while the Complete Streets project analysis results at the community-level were generally significant. These results indicate that Complete Streets projects may have an impact on the well-being of individuals. This thesis provides evidence that policy-makers should consider the impact of Complete Streets on individuals during the policy deliberation process and confirms the need for further academic research on this topic.
Download or read book Completing Our Streets written by Barbara McCann and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the country, communities are embracing a new and safer way to build streets for everyone—even as they struggle to change decades of rules, practice, and politics that prioritize cars. They have discovered that changing the design of a single street is not enough: they must upend the way transportation agencies operate. Completing Our Streets begins with the story of how the complete streets movement united bicycle riders, transportation practitioners and agencies, public health leaders, older Americans, and smart growth advocates to dramatically re-frame the discussion of transportation safety. Next, it explores why the transportation field has been so resistant to change—and how the movement has broken through to create a new multi-modal approach. In Completing Our Streets, Barbara McCann, founder of the National Complete Streets Coalition, explains that the movement is not about street design. Instead, practitioners and activists have changed the way projects are built by focusing on three strategies: reframe the conversation; build a broad base of political support; and provide a clear path to a multi-modal process. McCann shares stories of practitioners in cities and towns from Charlotte, North Carolina to Colorado Springs, Colorado who have embraced these strategies to fundamentally change the way transportation projects are chosen, planned, and built. The complete streets movement is based around a simple idea: streets should be safe for people of all ages and abilities, whether they are walking, driving, bicycling, or taking the bus. Completing Our Streets gives practitioners and activists the strategies, tools, and inspiration needed to translate this idea into real and lasting change in their communities.
Download or read book Capturing the Benefits of Complete Streets written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contributes to a small but growing body of literature that associates the implementation of Complete Streets projects with increased economic activity such as increased property values, tax collections, and increased business activity (such as new businesses and an increase in jobs). This work began by reviewing background information related to Complete Streets and examining how such projects may be evaluated. A set of case studies was identified, which included locations where Complete Streets projects had been recently implemented, but also that had been in place long enough to assess any changes in economic activity.
Download or read book Transit Street Design Guide written by National Association of City Transportation Officials and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Transit Street Design Guide sets a new vision for how cities can harness the immense potential of transit to create active and efficient streets in neighborhoods and downtowns alike. Building on the Urban Street Design Guide and Urban Bikeway Design Guide, the Transit Street Design Guide details how reliable public transportation depends on a commitment to transit at every level of design. Developed through a new peer network of NACTO members and transit agency partners, the Guide provides street transportation departments, transit operating agencies, leaders, and practitioners with the tools to actively prioritize transit on the street."--Site Web de NACTO.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book Reforming Complete Streets written by Maitri Desai and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, the urban forms and humans have interacted with each other to create complex civilizations and streets have served an essential role in this process. The anatomy of the streets provides varying experience to the users through different modes. The streets provide interaction in the form of communication, transportation and a place for conversation for the various social and commercial activities of the city. In the last several decades, the conventionally held definition of the streets have undergone various paradigm shifts. Recently, the Complete Street Design (CSD) concept has become the strongest and the most popular idea in the professionals and academic planning world alike. This thesis examines the ongoing CSD concept and their practice through case studies. As an organized and balanced mobility concept, CSD promotes multimodal transportation systems within the cities and also claims to achieve remarkable outcomes through the renewed design. The concepts are more focused on technical aspects of the improved infrastructure for mobility and the long term design commitment through the policy. However, current CSD policy is trying to restrict the streets by reinforcing the standard size and uniform structures with minor consideration for the people and their needs which makes the CSD incomplete. The standard application of CSD threatens the unique character of streets and also creates a variety of other issues. Of the many such concerns, this thesis focuses on two important and sensitive concerns: image and identity of streets and consideration of streets as public place. To illustrate these issues, the local example of Liberty Street in Over the Rhine neighborhood of city of Cincinnati, OH was used for the design by utilizing the local neighborhood's history, context and the user pattern. It is proposed that a dynamic platform as part of the complete streets should be provided for social and multicultural activities. Moreover, this platform should generally be flexible enough to undergo the changes deemed appropriate by the people at any time in the future. The purpose of the proposed design is to provide additional guidelines and potential additions for the current CSD.
Download or read book Incomplete Evaluating Current Complete Streets Practice and Presenting a Toolkit for Practitioners written by Samuel W Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Streets is an urban planning paradigm that seeks to utilize streetscapes as holistic space and not merely as a means for conveyance. This paradigm seeks to provide equitable access for all street users across all modes of transportation, improving urban livability and reducing reliance on car ownership. In the first chapter of this dissertation, we compare the primary benefits of Complete Streets valued by practitioners with the secondary benefits promised by academics and Complete Streets advocates, and suggest a methodology for empirically quantifying spatiotemporal outcomes of infrastructure projects. In the second chapter, we review literature related to Complete Streets outcomes to determine which benefits are well-documented and which rely on logic pathways. We then survey Complete Streets practitioners across the US to find trends in current practice and identify heterogeneities. In the third and final chapter, we develop a Capability Maturity Model for Complete Streets programs. This model identifies seven dimensions of agency practice that are fundamental to robust implementation of Complete Streets policies and guides practitioners through a self-evaluation. The purpose of the model is to allow agencies to evaluate their current agency capability and evolve to a more mature form of practice. Expected outcomes of this model include improved inter-agency communication and collaboration, identification of useful technologies and best practices, and a culture that values equitable transportation decisions and endures through changes in administration..
Download or read book Implementing Complete Streets in Small Towns and Rural Communities written by Diane M. Calloway and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis reviews existing international and national complete streets, current guidance and presents a procedure for assessing and implementing complete streets. This study focuses on what generalized approaches can be used in a rural setting and identifies a process by which any small town or rural community can proceed step-by-step to promote complete streets based on principles from successful urban and suburban examples here in the USA and internationally.
Download or read book Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Download or read book Complete Streets written by Stefanie Seskin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks written by U.s. Department of Transportation and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small town and rural multimodal networks.
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