Resilience down the streets

Maricopa County suffers from a mobility crisis, especially for non-motorized forms of mobility. Our community's built environment is inherently hostile to pedestrians, cyclists, and other non-motorized commuters. Mobility, the ability of people to move through the community to live, work, and play, is deeply linked to all forms of community resilience - from public safety, to employment, to economic development, to social justice, to mental health, to ecological impacts, etc. 

• Using geographic data, and performing analytics of Maricopa County’s regional-scale built environment, can we identify areas that are most dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists?

• If so, can we use these analytics to target policy and design interventions aimed at building our community’s mobility resilience?

• ASU Researchers and Analysts

• KER Academic and Community Fellows

• KER Crosscutting Scholars

• Arizona Department of Transportation

• Applied data analytics are on-going, but there is a poorly recognized under-acknowledged public safety crisis for pedestrians and cyclists in our community.

• The built environment of specific neighborhoods is more hostile to non-motorized mobility than others.

• There are concrete design and policy interventions that can help alleviate the crisis while building mobility resilience in our community.

• From this work, many “tactical urbanism” design interventions can be testing for short terms solutions to the longer-term design problems inherent to our built environment.

Explore Toro's story map of the mobility challenges and opportunities in Metro Phoenix below: