No longer a question of faith – proving the case for the shared space concept

At the LTT-sponsored Shared Space conference in London last week delegates heard that the evidence base to support the effectiveness of shared space urban realm designs is finally starting to grow… but that much more work on this is still required.

MVA selected ten sites, including London Road, Southampton, and New Road, Brighton, to study for their DfT-sponsored project investigating shared space evidence

MVA selected ten sites, including London Road, Southampton, and New Road, Brighton, to study for their DfT-sponsored project investigating shared space evidence

The Transport for London new "Valuing the Urban Realm toolkit" was launched just before Christmas

The Transport for London new "Valuing the Urban Realm toolkit" was launched just before Christmas

The First DfT-sponsored research project to investigate the actual evidence behind the theory of the ‘shared space’ urban design concept is close to delivering its results, MVA Consultancy’s Stuart Reid told LTT’s Shared Spaces conference last week. And the preliminary findings are, Reid added, that a well designed shared space scheme can significantly alter the ways in which the various types of road/street users interact with each other.

The objectives of the research...

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