Abstract
As for some of bus lanes, we should have to review their appropriate usage because of the change of the road and traffic situation since these lanes were introduced. Motorcycle mixed traffic in Japan has a unique motorcycle mixing state in the world and there are examples of the traffic control method as to share the exclusive lane between buses and motorcycles. This method is worthy of consideration as a way to realize safe and smooth motorcycle mixed traffic. In this paper the authors analyzed the rule recognition of motorcycle users through the awareness survey as an understanding the actual situation concerning passage of a motorcycle on a road section including a bus lane. Consequently it was found that motorcycle users have a very weak recognition of the rule for a motorbicycle and a bicycle in a bus lane and that for a motorcycle in lanes outside a bus lane, therefore many challenges still exist, both in informing road users of the rule in the bus lane and in whole concept of traffic regulation about a bus lane.
