Green & liveable streets

Streets for moving.And for living.

Every street does two jobs: moving people and goods, and being a place to stay, meet and play. We help you find the right balance, street by street and across the network.

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The Good Street approach

A route and a place.

We build on ‘The Good Street’, a framework developed by ANWB, Mobycon and partners. It treats every street as both a route and a place, and gives a clear logic for dividing space.

Place, then traffic

Start with the spatial quality you want: places to live, shop, play and stay. Then decide which traffic each street should carry.

Vehicle families

Vehicles are grouped by mass: pedestrians, bicycles, light motor vehicles, cars, trucks and buses, and trams. New vehicles, from e-scooters to cargo bikes and microcars, are placed in a family based on their mass.

A network per family

Every vehicle family gets its own main network. Where networks overlap, the method shows where choices need to be made.

Speed follows design

Each part of the street has one speed limit for everyone using it, and the design makes that speed feel natural.

Network and street

Decide at network level what each street should be. Then divide the street into spaces for each family, and test the design back against the network.

What we add

Data, not assumptions.

We apply the approach with data. Walking and cycling volumes, floating car data and open map data show what each street does today and what it could become.

That makes trade-offs visible: where space can go to trees, water storage, play and seating, and what that means for traffic, safety and access.

In practice

Braga, Portugal.

Together with Lane Patrol, we applied the approach in Braga, using DQ Flows data and the CycleRAP method.

Stroomlens is now developing a digital version of the method that scales the analysis to whole networks.

Stronger together

Combine the lenses.

The approach gives the framework. The other lenses give it data.

Liveable streets +

Walking & cycling volumes

Volumes reveal the main networks for walking and cycling: the starting point for a network per vehicle family.

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Liveable streets +

Road safety risk

We measure the risk of the current street and rate alternative designs, so road safety counts fully in the decision.

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Liveable streets +

Road user experience

Hear how residents and road users value their street as a place, before you rebalance the space.

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Share your question.

Tell us about your area and the questions you are working on. No obligation. We will come back to you with ideas and a tailored proposal.

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Email roxy [at] stroomlens [dot] com · Cascais, Portugal