Planning for safer road facilities for bicycle users at junctions

Li Meng; Li Luo; Yanchi Chen; Branko Stazic

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19424-6_20

Planning for safer road facilities for bicycle users at junctions

Li Meng
, Li Luo
, Yanchi Chen
, Branko Stazic

College of Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Promoting bicycle travel in a city where people are used to driving private cars is a difficult task. Safety is a major factor discouraging people from cycling and it needs to be addressed in order to achieve any significant mode shifts away from private cars. One suggestion that has been put forward to improve the safety of cyclists is to provide a separate area for bikes at junctions. This study reviewed junction design and traffic flow conditions at an upgraded junction in Adelaide, Australia that contained bicycle signals and a storage zone. It was found that the bicycle lane could be designed in such way that would separate left and right turning bikes into two sections. Also, the provision of blue bicycle crossing lanes has a potential to improve cyclist safety by warning pedestrians and motorists of possible cyclist presence. The study also recommends smarter data collection and better traffic modelling to help test improved infrastructure and enable the development of better policies regarding the safety of cyclists.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Urban Planning and Management for Smart Cities
Editors	Stan Geertman, Qingming Zhan, Andrew Allan, Christopher Pettit
Place of Publication	Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	20
Pages	373-387
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030194246
ISBN (Print)	9783030194239
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19424-6_20
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	16th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, CUPUM 2019 - Wuhan, China Duration: 8 Jul 2019 → 12 Jul 2019

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
ISSN (Print)	1863-2246
ISSN (Electronic)	1863-2351

Conference

Conference	16th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, CUPUM 2019
Country/Territory	China
City	Wuhan
Period	8/07/19 → 12/07/19

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Bicycle infrastructure
Bicycle policy
Bicycle ride safety
Intersection design

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Meng, L, Luo, L, Chen, Y & Stazic, B 2019, Planning for safer road facilities for bicycle users at junctions. in S Geertman, Q Zhan, A Allan & C Pettit (eds), Computational Urban Planning and Management for Smart Cities. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer , Switzerland, pp. 373-387, 16th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, CUPUM 2019, Wuhan, China, 8/07/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19424-6_20

Planning for safer road facilities for bicycle users at junctions. / Meng, Li; Luo, Li; Chen, Yanchi et al.
Computational Urban Planning and Management for Smart Cities. ed. / Stan Geertman; Qingming Zhan; Andrew Allan; Christopher Pettit. Switzerland: Springer , 2019. p. 373-387 (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography).

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