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Record W4415436325 · doi:10.1080/15568318.2025.2570322

Measuring and moving on the street: A scoping review of street space allocation studies

2025· review· en· W4415436325 on OpenAlexafffund
Daniel Romm, Lexi Kinman, Kevin Manaugh, Grant McKenzie

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Sustainable Transportation · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUrban Transport and Accessibility
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersFonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologiesSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsSpace (punctuation)Urban spacePedestrianUrban planningKey (lock)Resource allocation

Abstract

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A field of research is emerging that examines the allocation of street space to different transportation infrastructures, backgrounded by the increasingly recognized need to redesign city streets away from the dominance that cars have held over them for the past century. In this scoping review, we systematically search the literature to identify 12 peer-reviewed journal articles that use empirical methods to study street space allocation to transportation modes, synthesizing and reflecting on the studies’ methodologies, results, and identified policy implications and future research areas. From this synthesis, key themes emerge around how the studies frame their work in the transportation justice literature and toward conceptualizing an equitable streetscape, the differences in the methodologies employed and promising avenues to improve their methods, and the difficulties in comparing results across studies. Stemming from the reviewed studies, this review offers several directions for future research to encourage the development of street space allocation research, a field well-positioned to contribute to research and policy around critiquing and improving city streets and urban livability.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.017
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.065
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.020
Threshold uncertainty score0.089

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0170.065
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.004
Bibliometrics0.0200.022
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.005
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.077
GPT teacher head0.399
Teacher spread0.322 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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