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Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/2257-09

http://scholar.google.com...lias&publication_year=2011

In recent years, the transportation profession has started shifting away from considering only the automobile mode of travel when designing urban streets. The new emphasis is on designs that accommodate all users and make what was once an automobile-oriented street into a complete street. Recognizing this growing trend, NCHRP funded a project to develop a multimodal level of service (LOS) methodology for inclusion in the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM). This new chapter in the HCM will make it possible to easily compare various designs to determine the one that provides the greatest LOS to all users. But what exactly are the most important criteria for designing a complete street? This research seeks to answer part of this question by exploring various cross-section layouts and how they affect the LOS scores of two of the four modes (bicycle and pedestrian) in the new methodology. Four right-of-way (ROW) widths were selected to provide a broad spectrum of possible ROWs from a small collector to a large arterial. Within each of these four widths, an automobile-oriented design is compared with a complete street design. The relationship between each of the bicycle and pedestrian LOS scores is then explored, along with the impact the complete street design has on the automobile throughput.

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11-1538

English

pp 80-86

2011

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309222938

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Arterial highways; Bicycles; Complete streets; Highway design; Layout; Level of service; Pedestrians; Right of way (Land); Streets; Width

Highway Capacity Manual 2010

Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I73: Traffic Control

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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