Abstract
“Guidelines for creating a safe and comfortable bicycle friendly environment” in 2012 adopted a policy that bicycle networks should be created mainly by bicycle lane type, and shared space on carriageway. Street design to secure safety sense of cyclists is needed because most of cyclists feel danger when they cycle on carriageway. The aim of this study is to build evaluation models from a viewpoint of bicycles' safety perception in order to clear the condition for the safety sense of cyclists in passing by vehicles. In conclusion, the effects by several features of passing vehicles and streets are measured, and colored bicycle lane itself can improve safety sense of cyclists even the distance and velocity of passing vehicles are same.
