The aim of this report is to inform the RAC Foundation about the existing knowledge base on road sharing. A number of broad areas of potential research interest were identified: • Understand how behaviours of different road users can be more successfully co-ordinated so that ‘conflicts’ are reliably and successfully resolved. • Shed light on how different road users see and judge each other to help policy and practice to take action on the misunderstandings that happen between road users, which can lead to ‘conflict’. • Understand how traffic law and infrastructure designed to help resolve conflict between users can be improved by taking account of the ‘lore’ of the road. • Establish how views on and perceptions of fairness influence user attitudes about other modes and the provision of infrastructure. • Establish how efficiency is viewed by the different types of road user and what implications this has for developing shared networks. (Author/publisher)
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