Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan
Online ISSN : 2185-0593
Print ISSN : 0916-0647
ISSN-L : 0916-0647
An analysis of Bicycle and Automobile Near-miss Experience at Crosswalk Lay on Left Turn Channel
Shota Kuise, Seiji Hashimoto
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2014 Volume 49 Issue 3 Pages 855-860

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Left turn channel with a focus on large scale multilane traffic intersections are found largely in Okayama. Structurally, crosswalk is installed in the left turn channel. Therefore, Counter Crossing Collisions have many occurs on the crosswalk has become an issue of traffic safety. And so, this study Cause of the accident in crosswalk on the left turn channel analyzed focus on relationship of sudden braking behavior of drivers and behavior of bicycle, bicycle speed, bicycle position. As a result of this study, We indicated quantitatively that breaking behavior of driver are influenced by the behavior of bicycle approaching to the crosswalk.
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