During the past years people repeatedly asked their authorities about safety in residential areas. Significantly it all started in new housing areas, where as the result of an extremely economical development up to 1000 dwellings were linked to one loop-shaped access road. At peak hours there was an amount of traffic which made safe children play impossible. There should be a solution in a new principle of development: the principle of integration. By mixing vehicle and pedestrian traffic the respect for each other should have increased. Therefore, despite all former principles in traffic engineering, safety has been raised by integration of traffic. Test areas in three German cities are described. For the covering abstract see IRRD 253224..
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