Exploring criteria for reallocating road space dynamically: lessons from a workshop with experts

ABSTRACT

There is a potential to allocate road space dynamically over time when demands are complementary or disputed. A workshop with experts was performed to discuss the practicability of implementing dynamic solutions in urban areas. The workshop aimed to identify possible dynamic solutions, select streets for intervention, and systematize and rank street-level criteria for different dynamic road space allocation solutions. The results suggest that street-level site selection criteria can be classified into three typologies (functional, geometric, and layout) and vary across solutions.

KEYWORDS:

• Urban design
• street design
• public space
• road space distribution
• street space allocation

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to all the experts who have participated in the workshop for their valuable contributions.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work is part of the research activity carried out at the research centre of Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS) and the Centre for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism and Architecture (CiTUA). The work was funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) in the framework of the following projects UIDB/04625/2020 (CERIS), and UIBD/05703/2020 (CiTUA).