SHARED SPACE explores and exploits the potential for integrating infrastructure and traffic engineering, safety and spatial planning in transnational context to prevent erosion of social and environmental quality of the public realm. The approach has identified different types of road users with problems arising in a 'crushable zone'; integrating infrastructure and traffic engineering instruments into a cross-sector planning and designing process shall prove to reconcile the demands of the different types of road users and improve the quality of landscape and the built surroundings, pedestrian movement and social activities.

SHARED SPACE seeks for solutions for those who plan, maintain and adapt our cities, towns, villages and landscapes, and for those who are living there, how to retain, or even improve, the quality of the built and natural surroundings, whilst accommodating the increasing demands of the car. Integrating the disciplines involved, both at national and transnational level, the aim is that they will not be guided only by infrastructure and traffic planning instruments, but by the human perspective and information gathered from the surrounding features.

Expected Outcomes

Intended effects are the development of cross-sectoral co-operation between professional disci-plines at transnational, regional and local level, new techniques, new design principles and best practice for integrating infrastructure and traffic in spatial planning. Examples shall be areas, where residents can gather and children can play safely, stimulation of environmentally friendly modes like cycling and walking, accommodation of residential, business, shopping and leisure areas, enhancement of the value of cultural landscapes and the development of tools for effective participation.

Activities

The activities will be concentrated on the four key themes ?general infrastructure and spatial planning policies?, ?safety and liveability?, ?infrastructure planning as integral part of spatial planning on the basis of identity? and ?participation?. They will include inventory, comparison, analysis, research and drafts, transnational seminars with lectures and workshops and in many ways include interested public into the expert-guided process. Besides, implementations on a number of specified sites will be monitored.

Reported Outcomes

At Bohmte the activities centred round the contracting, start and monitoring of the realisation of "Bike and footpath at Schwakenhofe" and "Ovelgonne Mixed User Area". Also preparations were made for the calling for tenders of the "Central Area". The Bohmte pilot has also been chosen as a case study for an important survey of Federal Department for Building and Spatial Planning. Emmen started a programme to rethink the WOONERF concept. The local SHSP team organised a series of workshops and fieldtrips on the renewal of the WOONERF concept. The workshops resulted in a publication "Woonerfgoed". In addition, Emmen organised the Fourth Plenary Meeting on 6.7 and 8 June and in combination with this meeting a well attended national conference. Fryslan the first and second phases of the SHSP were carried out: the road surface of Stroobossertrekweg was renovated and in several places the right of way situation was adapted in favour of slow traffic. Preparations for phase 3, tackling the last part of the road have been started and this phase will be completed before the end of the project. Haren completed the materialisation phase of the Noordlaren schoolyard this year where the fence, an essential part of the SHSP design was officially put into use. Ejby partner was working on the detailed project for Main Street and Central Square, including redisign and refurbishing, integrating public aret as a means of creating spatial coherence. An Official openning of the new Shared Space at Ejby was held on 2 June 2007.