#Mapping Chicago’s Transportation Network Efficiency Objectives:

• Map multi-modal usage density of Chicago’s streets (bus, cars, small-vehicle (scooter/motorcycle)).

o A usable, interactive data map that can (or be reformatted to) answer such questions as:

-What streets are used the most?

-Where can the city remove the traditional grid system in favor of a more organic approach

-Are there benefits to upgrading/changing transport networks?

-What are the industrial roads? Can they be consolidated?

• Identify outlier streets

o Most used

-Implications: Requires pre-emptive maintenance… More?

o Least used

-Implications: Opportunity to recycle for more pedestrian/public purposes

o Most costly

-Implications: ?

o Opportunities for socializing transit costs

-Transit network upgrades if City can afford it

• Scenario analysis(?)

o Is there a market for bike trail here?

o Would anybody notice if N Seeley Ave was turned into a Green Alley?

o Why the Green Alley along east of S Prairie Ave should have some commercial zones.

o Why BRT downtown is a band-aid, what's more permanent and more pedestrian friendly?

Other city trends in transit