The pattern displayed on the carriageway to footway scatterplot show that carriageway and

footway widths have an inverse relationship. This may be associated with the fact that the total
street width is frequently fixed, therefore as any of these variables increments the other one is
reduced in the same rate. This relationship has been conceptualized as the trade-off triangle
(Jones et al., 2008) that illustrates the competing demands of multiple street users within a
fixed street width and that as either carriageway or footway width increase the respective
carriageway or footway width decreases.

Figure 8 Relationships between streetspace designation measures in London

Following the trade-off triangle concept, the square grid heatmap relating footway and
carriageway metrics in Figure 9 reveals that the majority of streets have more space allocated
for carriageways than for footways. Also, from this visualisation it is possible to derive that the
typical street in London has a carriageway width of 7.25 m and a total footway width of 4.75
m (n = 7680).

Figure 9 Frequency according to Footway and Carriageway widths

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