"Redesigning streets to make them more user-friendly for drunks could help reduce conflict and violence, scientists believe.
Researchers are using computer simulations to mimic the movements of people staggering home after a good night out.
They hope to come up with street designs that direct late-night revellers safely home to their beds instead of into the path of trouble.
Scientists went on to the streets of Cardiff to get information about drunken behaviour they could feed into their computer model."
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/07/23/make-streets-more-user-friendly-for-drunks-91466-21392832/
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/07/24/scientists-head-for-cardiff-to-watch-drunks-walk-91466-21394044/
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