The Pedestrian Accessibility and Movement Environment Laboratory (PAMELA) was a research facility located in Upper Holloway, part of the

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in the

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. It was designed to study human interactions in controlled conditions by replicating real-world environments such as urban

street A street is a public thoroughfare in a city, town or village, typically lined with Building, buildings on one or both sides. Streets often include pavements (sidewalks), pedestrian crossings, and sometimes amenities like Street light, streetligh ...

s and public parks. The laboratory had an artificial pavement platform which was used to simulate everyday scenarios, from different types of pedestrians to varying pavement conditions. Its experiments were intended to create safer streets and more user-friendly

public space A public space is a place that is open and accessible to the general public. Roads, pavements, public squares, parks, and beaches are typically considered public space. To a limited extent, government buildings which are open to the public, su ...

s. PAMELA in Upper Holloway was replaced by PEARL (Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory) in the London East Business and Technical Park, Dagenham.

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