DEFINITION
Complete Streets provide practical facilities for public transportation, pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists so that users of all ages and abilities are able travel and coexist safely and efficiently. In some designs, plantings and medians provide coherent separations between vehicles and pedestrians to organize streets and ensure safe movement.

AKA
"Multi-modal" is the adjectival counterpart to a "Complete Street."

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
how is it measured? what are the criteria for its design or planning?
Complete Streets Audit Tool

ILLUSTRATION
a diagram or drawing that demonstrates the basic pattern or concept

CASE STUDIES
links to separate pages documenting specific places or projects where this element is on display

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Shared space:www.shared-space.org

• www.completestreets.org
• Washington Post article about Complete Streets\
• Mean StreetsReport(focused on pedestrian safety)
• Project for Public Space'sTraffic Calming Toolbox
• Context Sensitive Solutions (aka CSS) dot ORG
• Planning Complete Streets for Aging Americaby AARP
  
• Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), CSS page:http://ite.org/css/
• Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities: An ITE Proposed Recommended Practice(Note: ITE is currently in the process of obtaining federal funds to assist in the update to this proposed recommended practice. We anticipate that a final recommended practice will be released in 2009.) [http://ite.org/bookstore/RP036.pdf]