2444 - Analysis of Bicycle Environment Using Instrumented Probe Bicycle

ConclusionsWe found that the probability of a fault event occurrence, was strongly related to the bicyclist's level of experience. The fact that inexperienced bicyclists had higher failure ratio implies that their levels of mobility and comfortability are lower. In addition, the quality of road surface had a significant impact on the speed as well as the comfortability index. The Ordered Probit Model showed that cycling comfortability was significantly affected by the average Y-axis acceleration and the mean absolute deviation of Z-axis velocity. Steering movements and Z-axis angular movements (yawing) also affected cycling comfortability. The IPB developed in this study turned out to be very useful in collecting cycling maneuver data and in analyzing bicycle safety associated with bicycle infrastructure.
Source: Journal of Transport and Health - Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research