Are shared streets acceptable to pedestrians and drivers? Evidence from Virtual Reality experiments.

ABSTRACT: While the development of cities tends to focus on improving traffic mobility, it has gradually neglected people's demand for safety and comfort walking on the streets. To address this problem, shared streets that can integrate traditional street life and traffic mobility are getting more attention as pedestrian-friendly development. In order to measure the performance of shared streets, it is essential to identify how people feel when driving and walking around. However, investigating the various factors that influence the real world is not straightforward because of cost, time-consuming, and safety problems. Virtual reality and the Human-in-the-loop (HITL) have become valuable tools for conducting experiments without compromising them. The experiments are performed on both pedestrians' an

SUBMITTER: Xu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9012376 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature