Development of Bicycle Hump for cycling speed reduction and separation from pedestrians

Abstract

In this Paper, aiming at developing the road surface devices which have effect on speed reduction and behavior to be separated from pedestrians, by using bicycles' and wheel-chairs' characteristics for the road surface vibration. Small size rubber humps are investigated from the viewpoints of sense of users that is pedestrians, cyclists and wheel-chair users. By analyzing vibration characteristic of various kinds of humps with different their intervals, The author found appropriate shape and interval of humps for the purpose of cycling speed reduction and separation from pedestrians.