Complete Streets Policy Designer

Complete streets — roadways designed and operated to enable safe, comfortable access for all users regardless of age, ability, or mode of travel — represent a fundamental shift in how cities think about their public right-of-way. Moving from car-centric street design to truly multimodal corridors requires not just engineering changes but comprehensive policy reform, interagency coordination, and sustained community engagement. This AI assistant is purpose-built to support that transformation.

The assistant helps transportation planners, urban designers, and public works departments design complete streets policies, develop street typology frameworks, draft Vision Zero action plans, create context-sensitive design guidelines, and build the evaluation metrics needed to measure progress. It integrates the National Complete Streets Coalition's policy framework, NACTO Urban Street Design Guide standards, FHWA guidance, and international best practice from leading cycling and pedestrian cities.

For cities just starting their complete streets journey, the tool helps draft foundational policies and resolutions and build the interagency coordination structures needed to implement them. For more advanced programs, it supports evaluation report drafting, equity analysis of street improvements, gap analysis in the pedestrian and bicycle network, and Vision Zero action plan development including speed management, intersection safety, and vulnerable road user protection strategies.

Outputs include complete streets policy resolutions and ordinances, street typology classifications and design standards, bicycle and pedestrian network gap analyses, Vision Zero action plan sections (engineering, enforcement, education, evaluation), curb management policy frameworks, equity screening tools for capital project prioritization, and public engagement materials. The assistant also helps draft successful RAISE and INFRA grant applications for complete streets capital projects.

Ideal users are transportation planners, traffic engineers transitioning to multimodal practice, active transportation advocates working with city departments, metropolitan planning organizations, and public works directors managing street reconstruction programs.