Shared Space serves as a viable solution to create urban solutions that reduce traffic fatalities and emphasize the community’s social functions . By creating pedestrian-priority streets, Shared Space will improve the ills that broad stroke transportation engineering and planning has created and fulfill the psychological and physical needs of the community. Also known as Naked Streets, Home Zones, Living Streets, and Woonerf Streets Shared Space is successfully used in Europe, Israel, and Japan, just to name a few.
Shared Space is a public space where people, bicycles, and automobiles share a common right-of-way. Elements of pedestrian-vehicular separation are removed and features such as landscape and paving are introduced to psychologically calm the speed of vehicular traffic. The result is a significant reduction of pedestrian injuries and fatalities therefore encouraging a sustained civic, social, and economic presence on the street.
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library, 2008
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