Mixed traffic in residential neighbourhoods has led to the establishment of shared spaces. Since traffic accidents do not occur in sufficient numbers in a residential area for statistical research it is impossible to use accidents as a criterion of traffic safety for short-term research. In this paper a definition is given of a serious conflict which would be as close as possible to a traffic accident, would be measurable, and would provide enough serious conflicts to make the problem capable of investigation. It is shown that it is quite possible in a situation to make the developed conflict observation technique reliable, but much development work still has to be done. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD abstract no 229197.
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