MoveSmart About the Strategy
Connecting people, places and communities
MoveSmart helps form and direct the City’s vision to provide a safer, more efficient, and sustainable transportation system. In the 2018 Citizen Satisfaction Survey, 59 per cent of residents said transportation is the most important issue facing the community. The City continues to focus on ensuring an efficient and reliable transportation system that ultimately gets citizens and businesses where they need to go. MoveSmart sets the direction and priorities for the next five years (2022-2026).
MoveSmart consists of four programs:
Road Safety Program – to increase road safety and raise public awareness
• To bring together key stakeholders to keep the city’s streets safer for all road users and help foster a road safety culture.
• To take a more proactive approach to road safety by using data and proven statistical procedures and identify additional road safety opportunities.
Mobility Management Program – to improve efficiency through innovation and technology
• To modernize the City’s traffic signals system, providing more efficient traffic flow and linking to existing and future technologies.
• To ensure pedestrians, cyclists and vehicle traffic continue to move safely and efficiently through signalized intersections and pedestrian crossings using the existing road network.
Traffic Data Management Program – to assure the accuracy and availability of traffic data
• To modernize traffic data management with up-to-date traffic data to form the core of the Strategy and support data-driven and evidence-based decision-making.
• To have traffic data to allow for ongoing tracking of the performance of the transportation system over time.
Sustainable Mobility Program – to support active and sustainable transportation
• To support the development of additional active and sustainable transportation options and ensure that these options focus on the safety of all road users.
• To support the expansion of the pedestrian and cycling network through consideration of the operations and maintenance services.
Visit the project updates page to view the timeline of the Strategy.