Technical Paper
Accident Prevention of Mixed Automobile-Bicycle Traffic on Narrow Roads
1981-11-01
811426
In districts of Japan and other Asian countries where roads are not well developed, densely mixed automobile - bicycle traffic on old narrow roads is usual. According to Japanese statistics 1980, the number o£ fatalities in traffic accidents between bicycles and automobiles surpasses 10 percent of the total and certain measures to decrease this count are requested. In the present report, the authors paid attention to automobiles approaching bicycles from behind and passing by. At first, actual traffic states on narrow roads were recorded by VTR and many dangerous scenes were observed. Then simulative experiments were performed as follows; A narrow road was set with various obstacles e.g. power pole on one side. Several types of bicycles were operated there by subjects under various conditions e.g. passing automobile on the other side.