Welcome to The Weekly Journey - your two-minute journey through the world of mobility and beyond. Use it to stay informed, find a new go-to source, or just have a peek inside how we think. Brought to you by the team at Journey.
Introducing JourneyBUILD. 🏗️
A smarter way to plan and design parking.
At Journey, we’ve seen it too many times — projects that overbuild car parking, tying up capital and space that could be better used for housing, green space, or active streets.
Every developer knows parking can make or break a pro forma. Too much and you’re wasting capital and space — too little and you risk approvals or tenant concerns.
We created JourneyBUILD to change that.
JourneyBUILD Output Overview Dashboard
JourneyBUILD is a customizable parking and mobility model paired with Journey’s planning expertise, giving you fast, defensible numbers that de-risk your project early. With JourneyBUILD, you can test parking ratios, shared parking opportunities, curb demand, and travel demand management strategies — seeing the cost, space, and risk implications in real time.
We’ve already used JourneyBUILD to save clients hundreds of millions in unnecessary parking costs. Learn more on our website and reach out to Lauren Mattern to see how JourneyBUILD can guide smarter mobility investments for your development, downtown, campus, or stadium project.
A few interesting things. 🧠
🤖 AVs: A cool map showing where autonomous vehicle services are publicly operating in the United States.
🎮 SimSubway: If you haven’t heard from your friendly neighborhood transportation planner in a few days, it’s likely because they have been playing Subway Builder non-stop. Miles in Transit took it for a test run.
🚸 Safe Routes to School: The Global Designing Cities Initiative just published a new toolkit for evaluating street improvements near schools.
🛣️ Road Diets: An in-depth analysis on the impacts of the Forbes Avenue road diet in Pittsburgh.
🪙 Fares: A new TCRP synthesis on low-income transit fare programs.
🔢 Data: The UK Department for Transport just released a massive new connectivity dataset for England and Wales. Worth reading through the methodology. H/T Rosalie Ray.
📊 Even More Data: A new approach to urban taxonomy at the building level. Check out the methodology and example maps.
Upcoming events. 📅
Lauren co-hosts the Chicago City Builders Book Club with our friends at Cityfi and Arup. They are currently reading Grafters and Goo Goos by James L. Merriner, a sweeping look at the tug-of-war between machine politics and idealistic reformers. Meet up with your fellow city builders at Arup’s office in the Loop on November 12th at 6 PM central to discuss the book and the latest Chicago happenings.