Evaluating Transportation Diversity - Multimodal Planning for Efficient and Equitable Communities - 22 April 2021

For example, multimodal planning tends to increase the amount of money and road space devoted to active modes, which increases the quantity and quality of sidewalks, paths and bikelanes, which often increase walking and bicycling trips, and reduces automobile travel. [...] Inputs, Outputs and Outcomes Inputs Outputs Outcomes (transport policies, (Quantity and (How and how much investments and quality of roads, people travel, and regulations that parking facilities, associated inpacts affect transport sidewalks and such as transportation system paths, public expenditures and development) transit services, accidents) etc.) Transportation diversity can be evaluated bas. [...] A more comprehensive perspective considers a broader range of impacts, and the potential for network effects, and so considers whether particular sidewalk improvements and public transit service expansions can together help create a more multimodal community where residents own fewer cars, drive less and rely more on alternative modes, and how this can provide multiple economic, social and environ. [...] The new paradigm recognizes that mobility is not usually an end in itself, rather, the ultimate goal of most transportation is access to desired services and activities (school, work, shopping, healthcare, recreation, etc.), and so recognizes the important roles that walking, cycling and public transit can play in an efficient and equitable transport system, and it expands planning goals to includ. [...] Improving walking and cycling conditions, improving public transit services, more connected roadway networks, more compact and mixed development, improved access to parks and recreational facilities, and programs that promote active transport tend to increase public fitness and health (CPSTF 2017).