Meeting COVID and Household Affordability Challenges through Flex Streets and Dynamic Bicycle Transportation Infrastructure

While the street is a public place, it is dominated by the movement and storage of private vehicles. This project will empower those who (a) cannot afford to own and operate a vehicle, (b) are looking to lower their carbon footprint, and (c) are simply seeking a greater choice in their daily transportation behaviors. The project will bring more democracy to the use of our streets by creating a ‘smart’ corridor that targets low carbon, space-efficient, affordable micromobility transport. Micromobility users will be tightly integrated with the signals on the corridor giving them agency, both supplying information to and acting on information from the transportation infrastructure. Link to abstract on nsf.gov