2022/07/06 by Geoff Boeing, William Riggs · 1 voice
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Business #Electricity #Electrification #Engineering #Pedestrian #Political science #Relevance (law) #Sustainability #Sustainable transport #Transport engineering #Transportation Planning and Optimization #Transportation and Mobility Innovations #Transportation planning #Urban Transport and Accessibility #Vehicle miles of travel
paper · doi:10.1177/0739456x221106334
openalex publication_date 2022/07/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Planning scholars have identified economic, safety, and social benefits of converting one-way streets to two-way. Less is known about how conversions could impact vehicular distances traveled—of growing relevance in an era of fleet automation, electrification, and ride-hailing. We simulate such a conversion in San Francisco, California. We find that its current street network’s average intra-city trip is ~1.7 percent longer than it would be with all two-way streets, corresponding to 27 million kilometers of annual surplus travel. As transportation technologies evolve, planners must consider different facets of network efficiency to align local policy and street design with sustainability and other societal goals.