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Objectives

STREET-15 aims to demonstrate how School Streets can evolve from isolated traffic measures into long-term urban transformation strategies supporting the transition towards inclusive, child-friendly and resilient 15-minute neighbourhoods. The project combines research, participatory planning and real-world experimentation to generate evidence that cities across Europe can adopt and replicate.

Participatory Methods

To analyse the effectiveness of intergenerational-based participatory methods in fostering inclusive and youth-driven mobility in our Living Labs.

A comprehensive assessment framework

To develop a comprehensive impact assessment framework to evaluate school street interventions in terms of accessibility, mobility justice, health, and social inclusion.

Barriers, enablers and scaling

To document barriers and enablers to implement school streets across different ban contexts, supporting policy recommendations and upscaling strategies.

Expected outputs and impact session 

School Street experiments will be studied in three living labs (Bulkeley et al. 2019) in Bergen, Naples, and London, each representing distinct social, cultural, urban and governance characteristics. STREET-15 plans to deliver the following results:

  • School Streets Atlas (WP2) by mapping existing school streets across Europe and analysing the state of the art in school street interventions.
  • Participatory Tools for Youth Engagement (WP3): by developing gamified and arts-based tools that actively engage youth in designing school streets to foster a sense of ownership and active involvement in mobility planning.
  • Impact Assessment (WP4): by defining a multi-scalar, multi-dimensional impact assessment framework to evaluate impacts on accessibility, active (youth) mobility, quality and safety of urban space, and effects of mobility poverty and inequality.
  • Strategies for Scaling-Up (WP5): by identifying key barriers and enablers for speeding up, expanding and adapting School streets, considering district-specific conditions for urban mobility transition.

The project will develop a set of conceptual and operational tools as School Streets design guidelines toolbox for creating youth-centric and inclusive mobility. These tools are tested and applied in the three pilot cities and adaptable to other contexts.