Methods to prioritise pop-up active transport infrastructure and their application in a national cycleway prioritisation tool

In the context of reduced public transport capacity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments are scrambling to enable walking and cycling. A range of pop-up options exist. The focus of this article is lane reallocation, which represents a ‘quick win’ for cities with roads that have a spare lane during reduced motor traffic conditions. We found that the methods could condense the complexity of cities down to the most promising roads, which match intuition. The evidence resulting from the methods, and future refinements, could support more evidence-based use of resources that have been made available to support implementation of pop-up schemes.