City authorities around the world are finding that investing in pop-up and interim projects can help build community support, improve designs, and speed up the pace of change.
Data plays a critical role in propelling these short-term projects into permanent and widespread changes on streets. The How to Evaluate Street Transformations handbook is an approachable tool that provides a starting point for any reader to measure, evaluate, and communicate street design data related to road safety impact and their co-benefits.
This handbook is intended for a diverse audience of public sector leaders, practitioners, community members, and other stakeholders interested in demonstrating the impacts of safer street transformation projects to encourage a broader conversation about what matters most on our streets as a key step toward longer-term, more permanent change.
This handbook is intended to be applicable for “pop-up”, “interim”, and capital construction street transformation projects, with a focus on the first two types. Pop-up street transformation project, are projects lasting a few hours up to a few days, a pop-up project is a quick way to generate excitement, demonstrate the immediate impacts of a design on a project site, trial a new design, and make the case for an interim project. Interim street transformation project. Interim project are lasting a few weeks, months, or years, an interim project generally uses street markings, paint, signs, free-standing delineators, plants, movable street furniture, and/or barriers. It gives the opportunity to experience the project and collect data over a slightly longer time frame: before, during, and after the project.
Source: Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI).
About Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI):
The mission of the Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) is to inspire a shift toward safe, sustainable, and healthy cities through transforming streets around the world. We are a team of designers, planners, and urban strategists committed to working in support of city practitioners
to get projects on the ground. We focus on empowering local officials and communities to become changemakers, equipping them with the knowledge, tools, and tactics needed to improve urban mobility and fundamentally change the role of streets in our cities.