Transportation Networks
Evidence-based strategies about public transportation networks (e.g., convenience, affordability, reliability) including different modes and types of ways to get around.
How to Navigate this Page
Select policy targets and evidence-based strategies that are priorities and achievable within your setting and sector. Align with your mandate, capacity, jurisdictional boundaries, and scope of practice.
Strategies marked with ☔ are important for populations-at-risk.
Entry Point for Action:
Reflects the organization’s or government unit’s sector scope and mandate
Policy Target:
Relates to the initiative’s focus
Evidence-based Strategies:
Concrete actions to guide initiatives’ design, delivery, and evaluation
SAMPLE INDICATORS
- Trends of traffic jams
- Trends of pedestrian, cyclist, and traffic accidents and fatalities
- Number/percentage of bus stops, distributed by neighbourhood
- Air pollution rates, relative to higher- and lower-income neighbourhoods
- Noise pollution rates, relative to higher- and lower-income neighbourhoods
- Transportation network connectivity and density
SAMPLE INDICATORS
- Percentage of household income spent on transportation, by transportation type (e.g., private vehicle, active transit, or public transit use)
- Self-reported commuting time, by transportation type
- Public transit ridership rates
- Number/percentage of eligible low-income people with subsidized monthly public transit passes
- Perceptions of public transit accessibility among people experiencing disabilities