City of Milwaukee’s Pedestrian Plan (2019)

Department of Public Works’ Multimodal Unit

Role: Transportation Operations Assistant

Project Description:

The Pedestrian Plan, developed by City of Milwaukee’s Department of Public Works, is the city's first comprehensive pedestrian plan, utilizing pedestrian counts and public outreach to create a GIS map identifying high-priority areas for safety improvements. It highlights the benefits of a safe pedestrian infrastructure, addresses issues facing pedestrians, and provides recommendations for enhancing walking conditions.

Work on Project:

• Team member on urban planning graduate research team at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, responsible for writing community surveys and performing door-to-door polling in all of Milwaukee’s 18 districts.

• As graduate student contributed to white paper research and data analysis for the Pedestrian Plan on “Driver Yielding Rates at Uncontrolled Intersection Crosswalks” and the “Pedestrian Safety Summary”.

• As intern with the DPW, assisted senior planners at the City with public outreach and stakeholder meetings for launch of the Plan.

Related Grant Work Related to Pedestrian Master Plan :

• Co-wrote two Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) grants, including a “Senior Fair Housing Intersection Improvements” grant based on research findings from my graduate thesis on reducing barriers to older adult women walking through universal and age-friendly design. The City of Milwaukee was awarded nearly $2 million dollars from these proposals to create safer, more accessible corridors.