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Assessing the Overtaking Lateral Distance Between Motor Vehicles and Bicycles - Influence on Energy Consumption and Road Safety

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Modern Traffic Engineering in the System Approach to the Development of Traffic Networks (TSTP 2019)

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The main objective of this paper is to analyse the impacts of the overtaking lateral distance between a bicycle and a motor vehicle (MV) on road safety and energy consumption at two-lane urban roads. An on-board sensor platform was installed on a probe bicycle to measure the overtaking lateral distance and dynamic data. The Bicycle Specific Power (BSP) methodology was used to estimate human required power to ride a bicycle while Vehicle Specific Power (VSP) was used for MVs. The results showed that 50% of overtaking lateral distance were lower than 0.5 m in the peak hours. The BSP and VSP analyses for different values of overtaking lateral distance did not result in any relationship between variables. There was a good fit (R2 > 0.67) between traffic volumes and overtaking lateral distance in the peak hours. On average, the MVs energy consumption in the afternoon was 92% higher than the morning peak periods.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge to the following projects: Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation Strategic Project UID/EMS/00481/2019-FCT and CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-022083; @CRUiSE (PTDC/EMS-TRA/0383/2014), funded within Project 9471–Reforçar a Investigação, o Desenvolvimento Tecnológico e a Inovação (Project 9471–RIDTI) and supported by European Community Fund FEDER; MobiWise (P2020 SAICTPAC/0011/2015), co-funded by COMPETE2020, Portugal2020-Operational Program for Competitiveness and Internationalization (POCI), European Union’s ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) and FCT - Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation; CISMOB (PGI01611, funded by Interreg Europe Programme); DICA-VE - Driving Information in a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Environment: Impacts on Safety and Emissions (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029463), funded by FEDER, through COMPLETE2020-Portuguese Operational Program Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI), and by National funds (OE), through FCT/MCTES. The authors also acknowledge to Órbita Bikes, which allowed the use the bicycle also Mariana Vilaca and Carlos Sampaio for their cooperation in data collection.

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    Behnam Bahmankhah, Paulo Fernandes, Jose Ferreira, Jorge Bandeira, Jose Santos & Margarida C. Coelho

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Bahmankhah, B., Fernandes, P., Ferreira, J., Bandeira, J., Santos, J., Coelho, M.C. (2020). Assessing the Overtaking Lateral Distance Between Motor Vehicles and Bicycles - Influence on Energy Consumption and Road Safety. In: Macioszek, E., Sierpiński, G. (eds) Modern Traffic Engineering in the System Approach to the Development of Traffic Networks. TSTP 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1083. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34069-8_14

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