A safety approach for street space requalification: the case study of an environmental area in Italy.

Street requalification in existing urban areas, especially in the case of local roads, is often very complicated by the different and contrasting functions and uses of the road, which cause safety problems. This fact leads to a big difficulty in finding consistent decision about the design and management of an urban street, without a detailed analyses of the use and the safety of the streets. This paper presents a method for improving street space design for existing urban areas, which gives solutions that can be easily evaluated by project officials or managers, integrating two different safety techniques: the 'Operational Safety Review' and the 'typical accident scenarios'. After the setting out of the basic principals of the method proposed, the paper goes on describing the implementation of it in the case study of the plan of an environmental area in an outskirt neighbourhood in the middle size city of Brescia, a Northern Italian town with about 200.000 inhabitants. In conclusion through the analysis of case study the potentials and the limits of the method are shown (A). For the covering abstract of the conference see E217780.