Identifying Factors Affecting the Safety of Mid-block Bicycle Lanes Considering Mixed Two-wheeled Traffic Flow.

CONCLUSIONS: The conflict frequency in mid-block bike lanes can be modeled using generalized linear regression models. The factors that significantly affected the frequency of rear-end conflicts included the operating speeds of e-bikes, the speed difference of the e-bikes and regular bikes, the volume of e-bikes, the volume of bikes and the width of bike lanes. The safety performance model can help better understand the causes of crash occurrences in mid-block bike lanes. PMID: 28326809 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research