 Hello everyone and welcome to chapter 3 where in this chapter we'll discuss the idea of shared space which we are in right now and In shared space when it comes to traffic calming there are some pretty important elements shared space falls in the category Mostly where pedestrians are predominant. So this would include von Erf's which will take a look in a bit And also environments like this which are more geared towards shopping and activities Now a few things to note Traffic is allowed in on the street and you can see big trucks going back and forth Occasionally, but also you can see a predominance of bikes and pedestrians here You also know there's no separation between the the curb So the center part is for traffic, but there's only a very tiny sliver of a gutter To separate the bicycle and automobile space from pedestrian space in principle That should make crossing very easy and with a small profile and lots of action in and out of the stores There's no shortage of activity Now as for traffic calming you will see a car that's going to turn in here very shortly It does give that idea that That pedestrian and bikes are primary and you can see the traffic speeds here about 15 To 10 miles an hour and you'll see this actually truck pull by and the reason that the the street is open for Automobile traffic is of course for deliveries, right? So that truck is probably going to go deliver Some goods to a store and then right behind us is a car that just dropped off a passenger so To recap this is a 15 kilometer an hour zone is not quite a boner because there's lots of commercial activity going on But it is a shared space and this is one of the two models that will explore Next we'll head over to a more residential neighborhood where the traffic is much lower and over there We're also look at some elements that make it work when it comes to traffic calming in a place where there's less activity and Voila welcome to a boner so this is what is referred to when the Dutch talk about the traditional home zone the boner and Here as you can see in contrast to the shopping street. There's much less traffic in general, right? and there's much more parked cars in the background and the traffic calming here relies more on the Obstacles and the vehicles and the chicanes a sideways deflection rather than on the people themselves A few commonalities between the the boner and the shopping street both shared spaces Is that here you can also see on the on the ground? There's very little demarcation between the pedestrian sidewalk and the road center and and it's also The paving is very mixed. So the traffic zone is not clearly distinguishable from where people walk Well, that's deliberate. That's deliberate because children and people on the street should be able to walk everywhere in the whole width of the street and and the horizontal deflection for the vehicles is to make sure that People keep a speed of maximum of 15 kilometers an hour at 10 miles an hour Here you'll see the sign that's coming up is is a boner sign So you can see even the sign itself has children playing you can see a basketball or a football being thrown around so that is what the purpose of this design is so what are some key things that make this work some key things are the absence of a demarcation between the pedestrian zone and the traffic zone narrow streets in general and a Distribution of parking between the left side alternated between the left side and the right side of the street Making sure that the visual distance is always limited, right? So if you are to look down the street, you can't see very far That's about three cars length three cars length that way and you have to go around the parking switch asides And that that's in general how this works For the cyclist the cyclist There's actually very little impediment to to speed here if you're riding a bike you can pretty much go full speed Not many vertical deflections and if you look at the the intersection here It's it's it's also not dependent on vertical deflection so the owner much more horizontal deflection less dependency on vertical deflection and with that you That's only made possible because there's very limited traffic volume and and a lot of use of the The cutting off the ends so lots of use of Removing through traffic Hey, so here it is. This is the separation between the road space and The the sidewalk and as you can see I want to really show you this down here in detail as you can see this is this is all there is right and and it's just a paving color and A different type of paving stone. It's all quite standardized here in the Netherlands, which leads to lower construction costs and And the symbolism seems to be reasonably clear the red space more for cars and traffic and the the yellow or the white cement more for the pedestrian area, but as you can see It's not demarcated by any vertical displacement. It's just a visual cue Which helps with the traffic calming which helps with this idea of having a mixed modes of transport