CONSIDERATION ABOUT THE RELATION BETWEEN WIDTH OF BICYCLE SPACE AND SPEED OF CAR BY USER EVALUATION—FROM BICYCLE RUNNING INVESTIGATION IN KANAZAWA CITY—

Abstract

In Kanazawa, “Kanazawa Bicycle Network Association” was found in Feb. 2011, in Kanazawa City, which consists of knowledgeable scholars, MLIT Kanazawa Office of River and National Highway, Ishikawa prefectural police headquarters and jurisdiction police stations. In Mar. 2012, “Kanazawa Bicycle Run Space Maintenance Guideline (Proposal)” was drawn up. For safe and comfortable bicycle run space maintenance, it's necessary to specify the “left-hand side of the road” that a bicycle should run. However, in fact, the relation between the width of bicycle run space and vehicle travel speed (regulatory speed) is not clarified enough. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relation between the width of bicycle run space and vehicle travel speed (regulatory speed) by the result of the bicycle run investigation conducted in Kanazawa.