This paper investigates the passing events between electric bicycles and conventional bicycles and explores the relationships between passing events and traffic parameters in bicycle facilities.Three exclusive bicycle...This paper investigates the passing events between electric bicycles and conventional bicycles and explores the relationships between passing events and traffic parameters in bicycle facilities.Three exclusive bicycle paths in Nanjing, China,were observed with cameras.Then,the field data including vehicle number,velocity characteristics and passing event features were analyzed in detail.Data analysis and fitting reveal that the speed difference has little impact on the passing event number,as does the bicycle ratio.The Gaussian function can better describe the relationship between the passing event number and bicycle volume （density）.The valid use level of bicycle path width influences the inflexion of the passing events-density fitting curve.The conclusions can be applied for estimating the passing events in mixed bicycle flows and for choosing a suitable width of separate bicycle path.展开更多
Editor: Min Fengkui’s article "Bicycle traffic inChina" in your issue of June 1986 (volume 2number 1) provides a valuable overview ofthe growth of bicycling in China’s cities andits relationship to public ...Editor: Min Fengkui’s article "Bicycle traffic inChina" in your issue of June 1986 (volume 2number 1) provides a valuable overview ofthe growth of bicycling in China’s cities andits relationship to public transportation. Healso offers some interesting proposals re-garding policies to be followed in cities ofvarious sizes with respect to the promotionof bicycling and public transportation. While much of his paper is interestingand useful, we do want to take issue withcertain parts of his analysis as well as展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51238008,51408322)
文摘This paper investigates the passing events between electric bicycles and conventional bicycles and explores the relationships between passing events and traffic parameters in bicycle facilities.Three exclusive bicycle paths in Nanjing, China,were observed with cameras.Then,the field data including vehicle number,velocity characteristics and passing event features were analyzed in detail.Data analysis and fitting reveal that the speed difference has little impact on the passing event number,as does the bicycle ratio.The Gaussian function can better describe the relationship between the passing event number and bicycle volume （density）.The valid use level of bicycle path width influences the inflexion of the passing events-density fitting curve.The conclusions can be applied for estimating the passing events in mixed bicycle flows and for choosing a suitable width of separate bicycle path.
文摘Editor: Min Fengkui’s article "Bicycle traffic inChina" in your issue of June 1986 (volume 2number 1) provides a valuable overview ofthe growth of bicycling in China’s cities andits relationship to public transportation. Healso offers some interesting proposals re-garding policies to be followed in cities ofvarious sizes with respect to the promotionof bicycling and public transportation. While much of his paper is interestingand useful, we do want to take issue withcertain parts of his analysis as well as
