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Die DNA der Straße - Straßenkonzepte als Ausgangspunkt einer umfassenden Straßenraumbetrachtung
Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.9687
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Conference Poster
Date Issued
2024-06-11
Sprache
German
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Technische Universität Hamburg (2024)
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The understanding of streets strongly depends on what is considered a "typical street". Street concepts can contain different ideas and have the potential to expand our understanding of streets, but also to integrate new functions into street spaces. These can help to deal with the challenges posed by climate change, pandemics or simply the lack of open spaces for recreation or physical activity in residential areas.
An important prerequisite is to change the current division of street space for different uses, which is a frequent cause of conflict. Most of these are related to the car and its increased need for space in the form of lanes and parking spaces, which blocks the integration of other forms of mobility and street uses. There are frequent calls for a fair distribution of road space (Nello-Deakin 2019), which cannot be defined absolutely and unambiguously due to the very different functions, characteristics and space requirements of the individual uses and the different possible approaches to this issue (Creutzig et al. 2020). Nevertheless, reducing the amount of space required by private vehicle traffic is a basic prerequisite for opening up development areas and redesigning streetscapes. With regard to existing roads that have the characteristics of liveable and climate-adapted roads, however, the question also arises as to how much these differ from roads with traffic prioritization in terms of space requirements, uses and climate-relevant design features and whether different redesign strategies are available for different types of roads in order to ensure their functionality in the future.
On the basis of a literature review (Meyer 2024) on road concepts, their objectives and measures are highlighted and, with the help of public geodata, a pre-selection of road sections in the Hamburg context is made that can be characterized as climate-adapted and liveable in terms of their quantitatively measurable features.
The selected road sections will be further examined for specific features and their character in terms of their affiliation to the corresponding road concepts by means of inspections, photo documentation and local design features. They are then contrasted with the street spaces focused on motorized private transport in order to work out the differences in terms of area and measures, which, based on different street types, enable explicit possibilities for improvement under different spatial-functional conditions. A proposal is made for the classification of the concept of fair road space distribution as a parameter for road space design in climate, mobility and social change, taking into account the respective space requirements for the case study of Hamburg. Finally, it is discussed whether and to what extent a modular system with individual building blocks to be fulfilled for each application ("street DNA") could be a practicable alternative concept.
An important prerequisite is to change the current division of street space for different uses, which is a frequent cause of conflict. Most of these are related to the car and its increased need for space in the form of lanes and parking spaces, which blocks the integration of other forms of mobility and street uses. There are frequent calls for a fair distribution of road space (Nello-Deakin 2019), which cannot be defined absolutely and unambiguously due to the very different functions, characteristics and space requirements of the individual uses and the different possible approaches to this issue (Creutzig et al. 2020). Nevertheless, reducing the amount of space required by private vehicle traffic is a basic prerequisite for opening up development areas and redesigning streetscapes. With regard to existing roads that have the characteristics of liveable and climate-adapted roads, however, the question also arises as to how much these differ from roads with traffic prioritization in terms of space requirements, uses and climate-relevant design features and whether different redesign strategies are available for different types of roads in order to ensure their functionality in the future.
On the basis of a literature review (Meyer 2024) on road concepts, their objectives and measures are highlighted and, with the help of public geodata, a pre-selection of road sections in the Hamburg context is made that can be characterized as climate-adapted and liveable in terms of their quantitatively measurable features.
The selected road sections will be further examined for specific features and their character in terms of their affiliation to the corresponding road concepts by means of inspections, photo documentation and local design features. They are then contrasted with the street spaces focused on motorized private transport in order to work out the differences in terms of area and measures, which, based on different street types, enable explicit possibilities for improvement under different spatial-functional conditions. A proposal is made for the classification of the concept of fair road space distribution as a parameter for road space design in climate, mobility and social change, taking into account the respective space requirements for the case study of Hamburg. Finally, it is discussed whether and to what extent a modular system with individual building blocks to be fulfilled for each application ("street DNA") could be a practicable alternative concept.
Subjects
literature review
spatial data analysis
spatial justice
street concepts
streetscape design
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300: Social Sciences
620: Engineering
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