How artists help transportation projects

There are eight specific ways that artists most often contribute to transportation projects. Pick any one of the eight approaches below to learn more and read real-life stories illustrating how that approach was put into action with artists and transportation professionals collaborating together.

Generating creative solutions for entrenched transportation problems

Arts and culture can help develop better projects that attract greater community support by imagining bold transportation solutions that are unconstrained by traditional processes. Learn more.

Making streets safer for all users

Arts and culture can make streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists by using creative methods to help transportation professionals empathize with all users. Learn more.

Organizing transportation advocates

Arts and culture can help equip communities to organize and advocate for more equitably distributed transportation investments. Learn more.

Engaging multiple stakeholders for an inclusive process

Arts and culture can help shepherd transportation projects through the community input process more quickly and smoothly by facilitating meaningful participation early and often in the planning process. Learn more.

Fostering local ownership

Arts and culture can help accomplish local goals including improving health, encouraging walking and biking, or increasing transit ridership by incorporating community-sourced artistic and design elements into transportation projects to foster local stewardship and use. Learn more.

Generating creative solutions for entrenched transportation problems

Making streets safer for all users

Organizing transportation advocates

Engaging multiple stakeholders for an inclusive process

Fostering local ownership

Alleviating the disruptive effects of construction

Healing wounds and divisions

Mitigating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic