Daniel Romm

Street space is overwhelmingly allocated to car infrastructure, yet any efforts to reallocate space to other transport modes is hotly contested. Turns out, even with radical proposals to increase micromobility infrastructure space, drivers need not worry – the cars are going to be alright.

We also model scenarios: what if we doubled all the bike lanes in Montréal? Still, in no borough would cars have less than 90% of the road, space per driver would fall by just -0.154 sq. m/traveller, but micromobility area would increase to +4.447 sq. m/traveller.

Boroughs with more cyclists have a worse ratio; in Plateau, drivers have 3.36 sq. m/traveller, compared to 1.51 sq. m/traveller for cyclists. We present several measures for communicating this inequality in street space allocation, look at spatial distribution, relationship to socio-demographics...

We measure how street space is divided between transport infrastructure in Montréal. Between cars and micromobility, cars are given 97.68% of space to micromobility's 2.32%; per traveller, cars are given 5.8 sq. m/traveller to micromobility's 4.54 sq. m/traveller.

Blog post about the paper on the @platialanalysis.bsky.social website here: platial.science/new-pub-the-...

New paper out, open access in the Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research: "The Cars are Going to be Alright: Examining Micromobility Infrastructure Space Allocation and Potential Improvement Scenarios in Montréal" (doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...).

The Potential of Shared Micromobility Systems for Connecting to Regional Transit Services In a Position Paper prepared for Ontario's Metrolinx, Daniel Romm provides an overview of shared micromobility systems...

In a Position Paper prepared for Ontario’s #Metrolinx, lab member, @daniel-romm.bsky.social provides an overview of the potential for current shared #micromobility systems. platial.science/the-potentia...