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Case study / Eindhoven, Netherlands

Eindhoven: reallocating kerb space from designation to measured use

What changed when the city stopped allocating kerb space by historic designation and started allocating it by recorded use.

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Measured results

Metric Result How it was measured
Kerb segments reallocated Reported by the city Municipal records, first two years of operation
Loading violations in pilot streets Reported by the city Enforcement records, before and after comparison
Dataset publication Monthly City open data portal

Every result carries its measurement method. A figure quoted without its method should not be treated as evidence.

Starting point

Kerb space in the central districts had been allocated by designation decades earlier. Nobody had data on how it was actually used, so every proposed change was argued from anecdote.

What the city did

Instrumented a defined set of streets, recorded use by category and time, and published the data. Then reallocated space, and kept measuring.

What made it work

The sequence. Measurement came before reallocation, which meant the political argument was about the data rather than about whose intuition was correct.

What another city should take from this

The transferable part is the contract language and the publication commitment, not the technology. Both are published.

Note on figures

Result values in this case study are placeholders pending confirmation with the city. DEMO / REPLACE WITH VERIFIED DATA.