More Complete Streets Resources
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Short slide deck that provides facts and information on Complete Streets implementation in rural communities.
Read More >Source: US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Offers a guide to help communities implement safe active transportation and multimodal improvements, including Complete Streets, trails and greenways, and mobility hubs as strategies.
Read More >Source: US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Explores how Complete Streets can enhance housing development, improve safety, and increase real estate values. Notes that $600 million invested in 26 projects spurred $6 billion in neighborhood redevelopment. Reviews potential policies to reinvest this value and address adverse outcomes such as residential displacement.
Read More >Memorandum on Bicycle and Pedestrian Facility Design Flexibility
Source: FHWA
A Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) memorandum that supports a flexible approach to bicycle and pedestrian facility design, including the use of design guides like the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) Urban Street Design Guide.
Read More >Source: NACTO
A blueprint for designing 21st century streets, the Guide unveils the toolbox and the tactics cities use to make streets safer, more livable, and more economically vibrant.
Read More >The National Complete Streets Coalition of Smart Growth America
Source: Smart Growth America
Serves as a leading organization on the topic of complete streets and hosts a number of resources, tools, and examples to help agencies develop streets that work for everyone.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Compiles and provides links to 29 federal funding opportunities for safety and Complete Streets projects.
Read More >Complete Streets, Complete Communities Distance Learning Series
Source: Smart Growth America
Offers a seven-module distance learning series on influencing community health outcomes.
Read More >Source: Smart Growth America
Provides a comprehensive toolkit and resources for effecting change at both the state and local levels.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Public Roads Magazine
Describes the FHWA NHI training series on using the Complete Streets design model.
Read More >Source: National Complete Streets Coalition - Smart Growth America
Presents a free tool to evaluate and score Complete Streets policies.
Read More >Separated Bike Lanes on Higher Speed Roadways: A Toolkit and Guide
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides policies and resources to help agencies implement separated bike lanes on higher speed roads.
Read More >Complete Streets: Model Legislation for States and Municipalities
Source: AARP
Provides a guide for establishing effective Complete Streets legislation.
Read More >Source: Smart Growth America
Explains the need for a Complete Streets approach in small towns.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Identifies and describes current capabilities, best practices, and future data and analysis needs for quantifying the safety performance effects of multiple safety treatments.
Read More >Transportation and Mobility Solutions for Climate Resilience
Source: US Housing and Urban Development Agency HUD
Offers a guide to help communities implement safe active transportation and multimodal improvements in decarbonizing their transportation systems.
Read More >From Policy to Practice: A Guide to Measuring Complete Streets Progress
Source: National Complete Streets Coalition, Smart Growth America
Outlines strategies for local agencies to effectively measure the impacts of Complete Streets policies.
Read More >Creating Accessible, Equitable, Safe, and Complete Networks for Young Pedestrians
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Offers considerations for the needs and cognitive and physical abilities of children and youth as pedestrians and bicyclists, and three actionable ideas to improve planning and safety for child and youth active travel.
Read More >Source: National Complete Streets Coalition
Introduces Benefits of Complete Streets tool and its guidebook, a data-driven tool that can help measure and project the benefits of complete streets.
Read More >Trails and Resilience: Review of the Role of Trails in Climate Resilience and Emergency Response
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Describes seven programs and funding sources to improve transportation infrastructure resilience, including investments to improve trails.
Read More >Complete Streets in Pittsburgh, PA Vital for Improving Public Health
Source: Smart Growth America
Describes in text and via a brief video how Pittsburgh, PA used its complete streets policy and updated street design guidelines as a blueprint to design and build safer street networks that provide mobility for all.
Read More >Source: International Transport Forum (ITF)
Explores street space allocation and describes how to measure space needs for mobility purposes.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Recommends making Complete Streets the default road design model to help improve safety and access for all users.
Read More >Source: FHWA Office of International Programs
Provides an overview of the Complete Streets concept as shaped by international exchanges and scans, related data, and benefits of the approach.
Read More >Source: FHWA Public Roads Magazine Winter 2023 Issue
Compiles FHWA activities and ongoing efforts to promote the Complete Streets model through the lens of five areas.
Read More >School Streets Toolkit: Transform Car-Centric School Streets into Safer Pedestrian-Centric Streets
Source: NYC DOT
Shares a practical step-by-step toolkit to develop, implement, and maintain school streets.
Read More >Source: FHWA Public Roads Magazine Winter 2023 Issue
Compiles FHWA activities and ongoing efforts to promote the Complete Streets model through the lens of five areas.
Read More >Moving to a Complete Streets Design Model: A Report to Congress on Opportunities and Challenges
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Details efforts to advance Complete Streets as its approach for funding and designing the majority of Federally funded roads to improve safety and accessibility for all road users.
Read More >Source: Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition
Describes a new tool that uses 17 criteria to evaluate and prioritize which corridors are the most important ones within a city to improve to create a complete low stress bicycle network.
Read More >Source: Populus
Provides an overview of current best practices for curb and mobility management in cities, with a focus on new policies, pricing models for access to city infrastructure, and data requirements for effectively managing the public right of way.
Read More >Availability and Use of Pedestrian Infrastructure Data to Support Active Transportation Planning
Source: NCHRP
In March 2010, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released a policy statement supporting the development of fully integrated transportation networks. The policy is to “incorporate safe and convenient walking and bicycle facilities into transportation projects.”
Read More >Transforming Street and Sidewalk Management from a Liability into an Opportunity
Source: Passport Labs and StudioID
Explores how a unified, flexible operating system for mobility management can help cities reduce congestion, drive economic activity, enact and enforce equity requirements and achieve other mobility and policy goals.
Read More >Case Study: Pop-Up Mobility Paths & Open Streets due to COVID-19 Crisis
Source: Shared-Use Mobility Center
Provides examples from cities around the world that quickly responded to the pandemic by expanding bike networks, opening temporary bike lanes, among other initiatives.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Offers ways to mitigate challenges and delays in the project development process for a complete street.
Read More >Source: TriMet
Serves as a model for considering pedestrian connections to transit within the transportation network.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Provides examples of applying nonmotorized network principles in small and rural communities.
Read More >Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Shares methods for measuring networks and prioritizing opportunities to build connections.
Read More >Achieving Multimodal Networks: Applying Design Flexibility and Reducing Conflicts
Source: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Presents practitioner-oriented guidance for agencies who want to apply context-specific design to reduce conflicts and connect their networks.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) and PeopleForBikes
This info brief surveys the impact of connected bike networks and common measurement approaches, and explores tools and strategies to help planning progress.
Read More >Rethinking Streets: An Evidence Based Design Manual on Making Streets into Complete Streets
Source: National Institute for Transportation and Communities
The National Institute for Transportation and Communities' free e-book includes examples and evaluation of complete streets projects across the U.S.
Read More >Source: Transportation Research Record
This paper from the Transportation Research Record highlights a pedestrian safety evaluation method that further supports complete streets efforts.
Read More >Source: American Journal of Public Health
This paper from the American Journal of Public Health shows the public health benefits of integrating transit and complete streets.
Read More >Source: Victoria Transport Policy Institute
The Victoria Transport Policy Institute considers the benefits and costs of complete streets policies in this report.
Read More >Source: Active Transportation Alliance
This design guide explains how to tailor complete streets to rural areas.
Read More >Source: National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)
NACTO's design guides on street, bikeways, and transit provide examples of best design practices that may be incorporated into a complete street.
Read More >Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Complete streets policies help provide the complete network that research shows is needed to encourage people to walk, bicycle, and take transit.
Read More >Statewide Complete Streets: How states are working with communities for friendlier roads
Source: Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
Across the nation, interest is growing in creating streets that accommodate all road users and not just motorists. As part of this effort, more than 610 regional and local jurisdictions and 27 states have adopted Complete Streets policies or made a written commitment to do so.
Read More >Source: National Complete Streets Coalition
This report includes examples of policies that do particularly well in meeting the "ideal" and lists the top policies based on jurisdiction and type. The appendix includes detailed information about policies adopted through the end of 2016.
Read More >Source: National Complete Streets Coalition
Between 2008 and 2017, drivers struck and killed 49,340 people who were walking on streets all across the United States. That's more than 13 people per day, or one person every hour and 46 minutes. It's the equivalent of a jumbo jet full of people crashing -- with no survivors -- every single month
Read More >Source: National Complete Streets Coalition
Complete Streets policies formalize a community's intent to plan, design, and maintain streets so they are safe for all users of all ages and abilities.
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