Overview:

Summary: Protect public transit riders at stations to minimize exposure to extreme heat through shading, greenery, and/or water features.

Implementation: Plan, design, and construct cooling interventions to existing and new transit stations.

Considerations for Use: Cooling interventions at transit stations can be piloted on high priority corridors, at highly-frequented stations, or in the most heat vulnerable neighborhoods.

• Policy Levers:
  
  
  Funding and FinancingThe allocation of public or philanthropic funding or private financing to implement projects, including risk transfer mechanisms.
• Trigger Points:
  
  
  Evaluating or initiating major city infrastructure projectsIncludes projects such as city transit, street or utilities construction / re-construction etc.
• Intervention Type:
  Buildings and Built Form
• Sectors:
  Informal Settlements, Transportation

Impact:

• Target Beneficiaries:
  Heat-vulnerable communities, Residents
• Phase of Impact:
  Emergency response and management, Risk reduction and mitigation
• Metrics:
  Number of heat-related hospitalizations

Case Studies:

• Western Sydney, Australia (UNEP, Pg 178)

Implementation:

• Intervention Scale:
  Site
• Authority and Governance:
  City government
• Implementation Timeline:
  Short-term (1-2 Years)
• Implementation Stakeholders:
  City government
• Funding Sources:
  Public investment
• Capacity to Act:
  High, Medium

Benefits:

• Cost-Benefit:
  Low
• Public Good:
  High
• GHG Reduction:
  N/A
• Co-benefits (Climate/Environmental):
  N/A
• Co-benefits (Social):
  Improve human health, Improve the public realm