Kevin J. Krizek

Can street-focused emergency response measures trigger a transition to new transport systems? Exploring evidence and lessons from 55 US cities

Transport Policy · 2021 · 65 citations

Transport planning and policy is increasingly being called to action in ways that differ from practices of yesteryear. Varied segments of society are increasingly looking to city streets-the workhorse of a city's transport system-as places to enact change. Namely, to change their character away from the type of streets pervasive in auto-oriented urban environments. Acutely experienced during the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency response measures from many cities across the world ab…

Visual Eye Gaze While Cycling: Analyzing Eye Tracking at Signalized Intersections in Urban Conditions

Sustainability · 2019-11-01 · 44 citations

The manner in which cyclists visually perceive elements of the urban environment plays an important role in bicycle crashes, which have been increasing in recent years. Yet, how visual information is processed by the user while riding a bike is still poorly analyzed by researchers. This study investigates cyclists’ eye gaze behavior at signalized intersections taking into account a set of gaze characteristics. Recording cyclist’s visual fixations by mobile-eye glasses in a real outdoor environme…

The power of reforming streets to boost access for human-scaled vehicles

Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment · 2020 · 31 citations

Measuring the wind through your hair? Unravelling the positive utility of bicycle travel

Research in Transportation Business & Management · 2018-12-01 · 25 citations

VIEWPOINT: Accelerating reform to govern streets in support of human-scaled accessibility

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives · 2020-08-27 · 15 citations

A longstanding mantra is that city governments lack capacities for agile, nimble change; such lack of capacity is starkly realized in how streets are governed. Exhaustive layers of codes, regulations and guidelines support a single objective: moving automobiles. The networks of streets themselves, together with the legislative and institutional networks that guide their character, are in dire need of being modernized. This viewpoint recounts a current perspective of city street governance, formu…