Quantifying Positive Impact
The Benefits of Complete Streets
This tool is designed to provide a way to quantify the benefits of Complete Streets projects and help local leaders and advocates communicate those benefits to their communities. Scroll to learn more and click here to get started by downloading the tool and guidebook.
Smart Growth America developed this tool with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity. This tool is designed to measure the benefits of building Activity-Friendly Routes to Everyday Destinations through Complete Streets. These efforts are part of the Active People, Healthy Nation InitiativeSM that is working to help 27 million Americans become more physically active by 2027.
Complete streets are streets for everyone.
Design and operate the entire right of way to enable safe access for all users, regardless of age, ability, or mode of transportation.
Model the benefits of community projects.
Model the benefits of a specific Complete Streets project with this data-driven tool that measures and projects benefits across the impact categories of health, safety, environment, and economy—using an equity approach.
How was this tool produced?
This tool was developed through a yearlong process of identifying metrics (beyond the conventional technique of cost-benefit analysis) to measure the benefits of project-level interventions in a holistic way.
