1. Complete Streets Design: Develop infrastructure that serves all users by integrating features like designated bike lanes, pedestrian-friendly sidewalks, and safe crossings, which reduce conflicts and improve flow. 2. Data-Driven Decisions: Use real-time and historical data on traffic, safety incidents, and mobility patterns to prioritize resources effectively, ensuring that high-traffic areas are optimized for all. 3. Community Engagement: Regularly gather input through public forums, surveys, and participatory design workshops to align urban developments with community needs and foster stakeholder buy-in.

Here are some strategies to help satisfy all groups to balance the needs: Prioritize Safety and Accessibility: Design for the most vulnerable users first by providing separate, safe lanes for pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles. Adopt a Complete Streets Approach: Use policies that ensure streets accommodate all forms of transportation with dedicated bike lanes, wide sidewalks, and safer vehicle lanes. Implement Flexible and Adaptive Spaces: Create adaptable infrastructure, like time-based pedestrian zones or reversible lanes, to meet varying demands. Engage the Community and Use Pilot Programs: Involve local stakeholders in planning and test designs with temporary setups to gather feedback and refine solutions for balanced urban spaces.

It is difficult to satisfy all three types of users at the same time and across the board.Providing Infra/space for all the three types requires a clear policy &implementation plan.Ideally space should be provided,as per standards with good aesthetic design to cycling and walking. At local level walking an cycling for short and medium distance trips should be encouraged.Long distance intra-city trips may inadvertently become vehicle driven.A lot depends on work home location dynamics.It is also incorrect to expect people to walk,cycle unless all provisions are properly met.While car ownership per capita is growing rapidly in some cities, there is an increasing trend for reducing vehicle driving lanes in many places.This is a positive trend.

A driver is also a pedestrian, and a cyclist is also a pedestrian; to satisfy everyone, we must therefore design streets and spaces that are pedestrian and human focused. Most people commute because they must, not because they want to. Addressing the separation of affordable homes from workplaces, schools, and recreation—and limiting densities and single land uses—can reduce the need for long journeys. By fostering polycentric local economies, cities become more convenient, efficient, and sustainable, leading to happier, less stressed people, avoiding power concentration, and reducing the environmental and social costs of excessive travel.

If a planner has the opportunity to do so, I think that it is important to observe the area themself over the course of several weeks to see what its inherent travel patterns and modes are. This coupled with interviews and data gathering from a project web site really helps optimize the solution(s).