Complete Streets: Promises and Proof

Jordan, Samuel W.; Ivey, Stephanie

doi:10.1061/(asce)up.1943-5444.0000684

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“…Some specific features for promoting neighborhood aesthetics may include attractive buildings and homes, high-quality outdoor spaces (e.g., streets, plazas, and gardens), attractive natural sights (e.g., landscaping, scenic views), and appropriate levels of greenness (Root et al, 2017; Saelens et al, 2003). For example, complete streets with sidewalks, benches, large canopy street trees, street lights, and visually appealing features can promote neighborhood walkability and aesthetics as well as easy and safe access to parks in the neighborhood (Jensen et al, 2017; Jordan & Ivey, 2021).…”

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Environmental and Mobility Strategies During Early COVID-19: Insights From an Empirical Study Focusing on Park Visitations in El Paso, TX

Zhong

Lee

Bian

et al. 2023

HERD

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Objectives: We explored the importance of environmental and mobility strategies during early COVID-19 by age and ethnicity and investigated predictors of park visitations considering the COVID-19 impacts. Background: Parks are safe and accessible venues to stay active and reduce social isolation, which is especially important considering COVID-19 and the associated lockdowns. Methods: We analyzed online survey data from 683 residents (collected July 2020) of El Paso, TX, and objective measures of neighborhood park characteristics. Chi-square tests and mixed-effects logistic regression analyses were performed to examine the environmental/mobility strategies, personal and environmental factors, and park visitations, considering the COVID-19 impacts. Results: The percentage of those who visited (1+ times/week) parks or trails/paths in the neighborhood dropped from 41.7% to 19.5% since the start of COVID-19 ( OR = 0.015, p < .001). Before COVID-19, middle-aged and older adults were less likely to visit parks than younger adults, while this difference became insignificant during early COVID-19. Hispanic adults were more likely to visit parks than non-Hispanics both before and during early COVID-19. Positive environmental predictors of park visitations included park availability in the neighborhood, proximity to the closest park, seeing people being physically active in the neighborhood, and neighborhood aesthetics. Conclusions: Proximately located parks, trails, and paths well integrated into residential communities, and high aesthetic quality of the neighborhood are the potential features of pandemic-resilient communities and should be considered an important national priority to maintain and promote the health and well-being of the population, especially during pandemics like COVID-19.

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confidence: 99%

Environmental and Mobility Strategies During Early COVID-19: Insights From an Empirical Study Focusing on Park Visitations in El Paso, TX

Zhong

Lee

Bian

et al. 2023

HERD

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“…More research is needed to assess the reasons for non-licensure in clinical samples such as HIV/AIDS and how it may contribute to transportation barriers and negative health outcomes. Additionally, policy makers and stakeholders should take into consideration how they can identify and eliminate structural inequities within transportation systems for vulnerable populations such as those aging with HIV and other chronic diseases using public health paradigms such as Critical Race Theory [ 52 ], policy design approaches such as Complete Streets (see review by Jordan and Ivey [ 53 ]), and advocating for increased public transportation funding and what types of trip destinations can be considered NEMT [ 47 ]. By acknowledging factors such as historical context, structural determinism, and social location through community engagement strategies, future transportation needs can be addressed to help remedy transportation barriers for those most at-risk [ 52 , 54 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Transportation Barriers and Health-Related Quality of Life in a Sample of Middle-Aged and Older Adults Living with HIV in the Deep South

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Access to reliable transportation is a social determinant of health imperative for disease management for those aging with HIV/AIDS. To what degree transportation barriers are associated with health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in middle-aged and older people living with HIV (PWH) in the Deep South region of the United States is presently unknown. PWH ( n = 261, age range = 39 to 73 years old, 80.1% African American, 64.4% male) were recruited from an academic medical center in the Deep South. Variables included sociodemographics, HIV characteristics, depressive symptoms, HRQOL, and perceived transportation barriers. Spearman rho correlations and linear regressions accounting for covariates were conducted. After accounting for covariates, greater perceived transportation barriers were associated with worse health perceptions, pain, social functioning, health distress, and health transitions. Access to reliable transportation is a key factor in improving health for PWH. Considerations for healthcare and traffic safety are discussed. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10461-021-03560-x.

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“…In this context, sustainable transportation concepts are as aspirational, relational, and political as they are technical (Wood 2014; Marsden et al 2012). The Complete Streets movement achieved its broad reach and mainstream status as it found local champions, engaged advocacy groups, received community buy-in, and allowed for flexible policies that matched local needs (Jordan and Ivey 2021). Public health actors have also advanced the movement by building active transportation coalitions that include a Complete Streets agenda (Sansone, Sadowski and Chriqui 2019; Porter et al 2019; Moreland-Russell et al 2013; Geraghty et al 2009).…”

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“…With respect to transportation system performance, Complete Streets advocates can point to the effectiveness of individual elements of multi-modal transportation design, such as the safety benefits of speed reductions, but the total effect of the Complete Streets framework has been challenging to quantify (Jordan and Ivey 2021; Hui et al 2017; Gregg and Hess 2019; Lenker, Maisel and Ranahan 2016). A few studies of the Complete Streets framework in-action have found a positive effect on pedestrian safety and no effect on residential property values (Porter et al 1972; Schneider 2018; Vandegrift and Zanoni 2018).…”

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Toward a Gender-Inclusive Complete Streets Movement

McAndrews

Schneider

Yang

et al. 2022

Journal of Planning Literature

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Research offers ample insights into how people of different genders could experience transportation systems in equitable ways, but gender equity is still not part of mainstream transportation practice. We propose that Complete Streets could serve as an implementation system to advance gender equity. We provide empirical information, gender concepts, and regional cases from literatures on gender and transportation, multimodal travel, and public space to support this call to action. We find that a gender-aware Complete Streets movement would: 1) implement gender-specific tools and data; 2) address social environments and infrastructure; and 3) establish a gender-inclusive agenda to reform transportation policy.

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Complete Streets: Promises and Proof

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

Environmental and Mobility Strategies During Early COVID-19: Insights From an Empirical Study Focusing on Park Visitations in El Paso, TX

Environmental and Mobility Strategies During Early COVID-19: Insights From an Empirical Study Focusing on Park Visitations in El Paso, TX

Transportation Barriers and Health-Related Quality of Life in a Sample of Middle-Aged and Older Adults Living with HIV in the Deep South

Toward a Gender-Inclusive Complete Streets Movement

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