Tab Combs
Tab CombsHey #NorthCarolina friends - does anyone have photos of local COVID-related street space adaptations? I'm looking for a few I can use (with attribution!) in a presentation on how state DOTs can support local crisis responses.
Please and thank you!!!
#COVIDstreets #transportation #planning
I don't do the work I do in over to become famous. But if ever I were to become famous for my work, it would be for my work on #COVIDstreets. To see a LLM provider stealing that work and crediting someone else for it in order to feed their profit machine frankly sucks.
2/ Since March 4, 2020 I've been collecting and analyzing data about how cities around the world responding to the changing demand for street space brought on by the #COVID19 pandemic. This piece is from was the first major study of #COVIDstreets in my home state.
2/ Since March 4, 2020 I've been collecting and analyzing data about how cities around the world responding to the changing demand for street space brought on by the #COVID19 pandemic. This piece, from a DOT-sponsored study, was the first major study of #COVIDstreets in my home state.
Tab CombsFour years ago today my kid's school shut down and I coped by making a list of cities that were closing streets to cars so kids could play in them.
Shortly thereafter, I took to social media for help documenting what would soon be a global phenomenon.
It was a hell of a ride.
#COVID #COVIDstreets #ShiftingStreets #PandemicStreets @pedbikeinfo
Heck yeah. My new #paper with Lindsay Oluyede & Carlos Pardo is out today in #TransportReviews:
"The why and how of COVID streets: a city level review of research into planning motivations and approaches during a crisis"
This labor of love examined the processes that led to and shaped #COVIDstreets programs in 28 cities around the world, as reported in peer-reviewed literature. 🧵
I've been saying it from the start: #COVID's most enduring impact on transportation will be how it's changed the practice of street design and transportation planning.
Street-level programs will come and go. But the transportation profession wil never be the same again.
#COVIDstreets #ShiftingStreets #transport (1/?)
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1600169719440576512
Street-level programs will come and go. But the transportation profession wil never be the same again.
#COVIDstreets #ShiftingStreets #transport (1/?)
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1600169719440576512
Just wrapped a really sweet study on the impacts of local and state level supports for street space reallocations during the #COVID19 pandemic. Full report is coming; for now, enjoy a summary of our findings & recommendations. Narrated by UNC DCRP student Sam Hayes (who's awesome, btw).
#COVIDstreets #ShiftingStreets #StreetSpace #ResearchToPractice #planning
Local and State Supports for Adaptive Street Use: Learning from COVID19
Register for the last session in CSCRS’s final Research to Practice Bytes series examining COVID street transformations w/presenter @DrTCombs (hey that's me)
When: May 31, 2:30-3pm (EDT)
Where: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X2B7zBAeTRuNw8V2yZUlIA#/registration
Who: me, you, all our #SafeSystem friends
Why: because #COVID19 changed everything, including how we use, think about, and plan for streets. And also because it's the last #webinar for this amazing organization.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Unplanned pandemic planning: Lessons learned from rapid COVID street transformations. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
This webinar will focus on a study that combined structured interviews with ped/bike count data to explore the processes through which nine U.S. communities planned and evaluated rapid rollouts of new active mobility infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our research identified a wide range of approaches to “COVID streets.” Interestingly, we also note that standard ped/bike count data did not reflect community leaders’ perceived impacts of their rapid rollouts, suggesting a need for more intentional methods of quantifying the impacts of such projects.
Doing a thing later this month: "Uplanned #pandemic #planning: Lessons learned from rapid #COVID street transformations."
It's a mini-webinar (aka practice byte) on some stuff I've been working on through the Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety. Registration is free, and it's only half an hour!
#RoadSafety #CSCRS #COVIDstreets #ShiftingStreets #streets #webinar
www.roadsafety.unc.edu/profdev/webinars/