Streets2030

Streets2030 delivers the change needed to ensure NWE streets remain safe and attractive to cycling and walking, making them climate-resilient and active by 2030.

The successful shift to active travel across NWE faces a major threat: climate change and its increasingly visible manifestations, as evidenced by extreme weather events such as heatwaves, heavy rainfalls, floodings, strong wind... NWE urban areas invest more and more in walking and cycling, but this infrastructure is increasingly at risk in relation to the aforementioned weather events, making cycling and walking facilities less attractive and hindering the essential shift towards eco-friendly, healthy and safe urban transport. The Streets2030 project therefore aims to provide solutions that enhance the climate resilience of infrastructure dedicated to active transport (ATI), from design through to construction, including an assessment of its use.

Our overall objective is to future-proof NWE streets by equipping city planners and wider practitioners (e.g. road construction contractors, civil engineering firms, public local deciders and technicians) with the tools and expertise to build climate resilience directly into their Active Travel Infrastructure (ATI). To this aim, the project 1) improves the assessment and planning of ATI’s climatic resilience; 2) pilots and validates green and grey ATI innovations to mitigate effects of key climatic events (heat, heavy rain, seasonal changes); 3) bridges climate adaptation and urban mobility department silos by building the right capacities in climate-resilient active travel.

9 partners join forces in a transnational partnership of complementary expertise and diverse climatic portfolios (from Atlantic influences to continental and sub-Mediterranean dynamics) to develop robust, widely applicable solutions. The project aims at delivering 3 main outputs:

1. a Climatic Assessment Strategy for evaluation of ATI
2. a tool to assess and guide investments and solutions in green and grey ATI solutions and new resilient public space trends, the Sreets2030 Resilient Kompass
3. a packaged Training Programme to build lasting technical capacity among professionnals and urban planners.

The project will last 41 months, until spring 2029.