The urban street sits at the centre of policy attention looking to redress the injustice of the car domination of the urban landscape, which contributes to unhealthy cities, pollution, high rates of fatal crashes between automobiles and other travellers, and other maladies. Much of the contestation around the street focuses on the space allocated to different transport infrastructures, which overwhelmingly is dedicated to cars. While some recent research has begun to closely examine the distribution of street space to transport infrastructures, another under-explored angle is dynamic street space consumption: how much space does a trip occupy in the city, over time, considering movement dynamics. In this paper, we use mobility survey data to analyze how the street space used by different travellers and households varies according to trip, personal, and household characteristics. In this way, we examine inequities in how people use city space according to travel mode, gender, race, income, and household composition. In addition to the spatial dimension, we also consider the carbon emissions of trips, to understand how space consumption and carbon emissions are related, and how different personal and household characteristics relate to the environmental cost of travel.
