Reports

Original research is the backbone of every Transportation Alternatives advocacy campaign. These reports introduce innovative new street designs, import best practices from around the world, and most importantly, hold New York City decision-makers to the highest standard of efficacy.

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Daylighting 101: A Guide for Communities Seeking Safe Intersections

A guide to learn how infrastructure upgrades, like daylighting, can transform public spaces to prioritize safety and people.

Waiting for the Bus in New York City is Hot and Miserable. Here’s Why.

NASA and Transportation Alternatives reveal the 100 spots where New Yorkers swelter waiting for the bus.

Spatial Equity 2024: A Profoundly Unequal New York

By examining how New York City devotes the majority of its public space to cars rather than people, TA reveals profound inequities built into the streetscape.

Delivering Safety

A Regulatory Framework to Rein in the Destructive Practices of Same-Day Delivery App Companies for Calm Streets and Just Working Conditions

Five Lessons for the 10-Year Anniversary of Vision Zero in New York City

A Look at the Successes and Shortcomings of America’s First Vision Zero Program

How Congestion Pricing Will Improve Your Life

Plus: 15 Quick and Easy Policy Ideas to Demand Right Now

Why New York City Must Design Streets for Children

New and more aggressive efforts are needed to protect the four million children who call New York City home.

The Deadly and Costly Impact of Supersized Vehicles on New York

Why Vehicle Registration Fees Must Be Adjusted to Take into Account Traffic Violence and Road Damage

Building an E-Micromobility Future

How to encourage the safe and sustainable growth of e-bikes and other lightweight electric vehicles on New York City streets

Seven Steps for New York State’s Leaders to Transform Our Streets

By converting car space into space for people, Governor Hochul and the New York State Legislature can dramatically improve public health.

Spatial Equity NYC 2022 Report Card

Transportation Alternatives and the Civic Data Design Lab at the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have uncovered alarming inequities in how public space is distributed.

Speeding Doesn’t Sleep

New York City’s automated speed safety camera program, which operates to protect all New Yorkers around city schools, saves lives by reducing traffic crashes and reckless driving. However, by state law, the cameras are restricted from operating on nights and weekends.

Home Rule Means Safe Streets

While the causes of the crisis are many, one solution could quickly and easily make streets safer: granting home rule over traffic safety to the City of New York and ending Albany’s control over New York City’s streets.

Shovel-Ready NYC 25x25 Streets

There is a known-solution to inequitable, ineffective, and unsafe streets: redesigning those streets with changes that prioritize moving people over cars. What follows are five site studies that demonstrate what is possible when community-driven planning is catalyzed by technology.

Seven Steps to Save Our Health, Our Safety, Our Environment, and Our Economy by Making Better Use of New York City’s Streets

Seven Steps adds practical and specific policy proposals to the NYC 25x25 vision, marking seven waypoints on the road to converting 25% of car space into space for people by 2025.

Open Streets Forever

New York City’s next leaders must turn Open Streets into permanent, 24/7 fixtures of the streetscape, as part of an effort to convert 25% of car space into space for people by 2025.

Too Fast, Too Furious: New York City’s Speeding Epidemic and the Case for Local Control of Speed Limits

We need immediate action to reverse the rising death toll on our streets. Passing Sammy’s Law would give the City of New York the power to set its own speed limits and create streets safe for all New Yorkers.

The Power of Bicycle Parking

We analyzed the current state of bicycle parking in New York City and its potential to encourage increased cycling, prevent traffic crashes, and reduce the barriers for communities, especially low-income communities and communities of color, to choose cycling.

The Case for Self-Enforcing Streets
The Urgent Need for a 14th Street Busway
Ringing in the Greenway
Child Traffic Fatalities Expected to Double This Year
The L Train Shutdown
Vision Zero Report Card 2017

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