Complete Streets

Complete streets is an emerging approach to transportation policy, planning, and design that accounts for multiple modes and users of transportation projects and community scale transportation planning. Emphasizing the need to develop transportation projects and plans that account for land use and the urban design context, Complete streets is an important evolution in transportation practice, offering a more context-driven and community-engaged approach.Drawing on a 2013 report of implementation in 11 diverse U.S. communities, Complete Streets aims to transform transportation policy, planning and design by emphasizing that implementation cannot be accomplished merely by passing new policies; a more comprehensive approach is required. This book offers strategies and insight centered on six key topics including framing and positioning complete streets; institutionalizing complete streets; analysis and evaluation; engaging the public and stakeholders; promotion, education, and communication; and funding complete streets.With tools, policy and plan language, and programs that can be tailored to unique communities, Carissa Schively Slotterback documents the first academic study of complete streets implementation. Featuring 200 full-color images, this is a practical resource for transportation planners, urban planners, land use professionals, and students and academicsof planning.