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Street Network 101 - Related Readings

OVERVIEW OF STREET NETWORKS

• Wesley E. Marshall, Garrick, N., and Marshall, S.  “Street Networks” in International Handbook on Transport and Development by Editors R. Hickman, D. Bonilla, M. Givoni, and D. Banister, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014.​  https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9780857937254.00020.xml

STREET NETWORK & ROAD SAFETY

• Wesley E. Marshall and Garrick, N.  Does Street Network Design Affect Traffic Safety?  Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol. 43, Issue 3: 769-781, 2011.  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457510003179
• Wesley E. Marshall and Garrick, N.  Street Network Types and Road Safety: A Study of 24 California Cities.  Urban Design International Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 3: 133-147, 2010.   http://www.palgrave-journals.com/udi/journal/v15/n3/full/udi200931a.html

STREET NETWORKS & TRAVEL BEHAVIOR

• Wesley E. Marshall and Garrick, N.  The Effect of Street Network Design on Walking and Biking.  Transportation Research Record, No. 2198: 103-115, 2010.  http://trrjournalonline.trb.org/doi/10.3141/2198-1
• Wesley E. Marshall and Garrick, N.  Community Design, Land Use, and How Much We Drive.  Journal of the Transport and Land Use, Vol. 5, No. 2: 5-21, 2012.  https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/301

STREET NETWORKS & PUBLIC HEALTH

• Wesley E. Marshall, Piatkowski, D., and Garrick, N.  Community Design, Street Networks, and Public Health.  Journal of Transport & Health, Vol. 1, Issue 4: 326-340, 2015 (doi:10.1016/j.jth.2014.06.002i).​  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140514000486

STREET NETWORKS & INTERSECTION CAPACITY

• Bern, B. & Wesley E. Marshall.  Capacity Analysis of Pedestrian Treatments at Large Arterial Intersections & Comparison with Lane-Equivalent, Small Intersection Gridded Networks.  ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Vol. 139, No. 4, 241-249, 2013.  http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000156

MEASURING STREET NETWORKS

• Wesley E. Marshall and Garrick, N.  Community Design, Land Use, and How Much We Drive.  Journal of the Transport and Land Use, Vol. 5, No. 2: 5-21, 2012.  https://www.jtlu.org/index.php/jtlu/article/view/301
• Knight, P. and Wesley E. Marshall.  The Metrics of Street Network Connectivity: Their Inconsistencies.  Journal of Urbanism (doi: 10.1080/17549175.2014.909515).  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17549175.2014.909515#.Ven5WflVhBE

OTHER RELATED PAPERS

• Wesley E. Marshall.  An Evaluation of Livability in Creating Transit-Enriched Communities for Improved Regional Benefits.  Research in Transportation Business & Management, Vol. 7: 54-68, 2013.  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210539513000035
• Wesley E. Marshall.  Understanding the impacts of integrating New Urbanist neighborhood and street design ideals with conventional traffic engineering standards: the case of Stapleton.  Journal of Urbanism (doi: 10.1080/17549175.2014.896826).  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17549175.2014.896826#.Ven5MflVhBE
• Wesley E. Marshall and Garrick, N.  Evidence on Why Bike-Friendly Cities are Safer for all Road Users.  Journal of Environmental Practice, Vol. 13, Issue 1: 16-27, 2011.

Principles of Transportation Networks - Original Working Documents

• Introduction to Reform
• Defining and Measuring the Sustainable Transportation Network
• Network and Place
• Network and Modes
• Implementation Policies and Barriers
• Emergency Response and Street Design

Summary of Network Discussions at CNU XVI

• The Metrics of Networks
• The Network and Transit
• Defining the Network
• Implementation Barriers
• Networks and Sustainability

Transportation Network Discussions at Previous Transportation Summits

• 2009 Transportation Summit in Portland
• 2006 Transportation Summit in Boulder
• 2003 Transportation Summit in Nashville

Presentations

• Connectivity PowerPoint Presentation by Scott McCarey of Charlier Associates