Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management)
Online ISSN : 2185-6540
ISSN-L : 2185-6540
Infrastructure Planning and Management Vol.35 (Special Issue)
ACTUAL CONDITION OF COMPLIANCE WITH TRAFFIC REGULATIONS AND SAFETY BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS OF BICYCLE USERS CHANGING COURSE ON A ROADWAY
Ryota KAWAIToshiaki KIN
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2018 Volume 74 Issue 5 Pages I_1091-I_1100

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Recently, National Police Agency and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism are strongly promoting improvement of the bicycle space such as bicycle lane. That's why the number of cyclists passing on roadway is expected to increase. Cyclists passing on roadway have contacting risks with vehicles when they overtake bicycles and parked vehicles. It's needed to look back or make a sign, but the accurate traffic regulations or manner isn't established currently. In this study, we conducted the video survey relating to safety behavior in order to reveal the influence factors of safety behavior by cyclists and observance of the traffic regulations. Consequently, it's found that the percentage of observance rate of safety behavior by cyclists is lower than half of the whole. Furthermore, it's elucidated that parked width of vehicle, separate width between bicycle and vehicle, PET index and type of an overtaking vehicle have a huge effect on compliance rate of safety behavior. We got the knowledge regarding to the traffic regulations and manner in order to improve them.
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