EVALUATION ON THE SAFETY OF SMALL JUNCTIONS ALONG THE ARTERIAL STREETS FROM THE VISIBILITY OF CONERS, CYCLING DIRECTION AND POSITIONS USING DRIVING SIMULATOR
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- WANG Rugang
- 徳島大学大学院 先端技術科学教育部
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- YAMANAKA Hideo
- 徳島大学 ソシオテクノサイエンス研究部
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- MITANI Tetsuo
- 流通科学大学 総合政策学部
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- Other Title
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- ドライビングシミュレータによる幹線小交差点での見通しと自転車走行位置の安全性評価
- ドライビングシミュレータ ニ ヨル カンセン ショウコウサテン デ ノ ミトオシ ト ジテンシャ ソウコウ イチ ノ アンゼンセイ ヒョウカ
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Abstract
Bicycle accidents increased in recent years in the ratio of the total number of traffic accidents. 50% of the accidents are crossing collision between bicycles and vehicles at unsignalized small junctions. Especialy, danger at small junctions along the arterial street has been focused where cyclings of both directions are permitted on the sidewalks in Japan. It is said that bicycles traveling in opposite direction to cars along the sidewalks near the buildings are dangerous.<br>This study aims at analysis on behavior of the car drivers who goes out from side roads into a arterial streets. we used virtual experiments by driving simulator and measured indecis such as position of driver's attention, TTC etc to evaluate the safety from the visibility of coners, cycling direction and positions. It was found that car drivers have tendency to pay attention only to the right side where car comes from, but not to the left side when the visibility of left side is bad,. Bicycles which cycling on sidewalk, and cycling on opposite direction to cars are more dangerours than cycling on other positions or directions.
Journal
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- Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management)
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Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management) 70 (5), I_951-I_959, 2014
Japan Society of Civil Engineers