Behavioural Modelling and Simulation of Bicycle Traffic

by Ling Huang, Jianping Wu

Overview

Cycling is an important part of the urban transport system and short-distance travel in many modern cities around the world. With no emissions and occupying much less road space than cars, bikes are clean and sustainable. Bicycle traffic needs to be tracked and analysed in order to generate reliable predictions and make correct decisions when adapting and building traffic infrastructure, to account for bikes in road traffic systems, and to model and plan interactions between bikes and autonomous vehicles.

Offering a systematic analysis of the movements and behaviours of bicycles and their riders, this book discusses data collection and evaluation approaches, and the development of a framework for the theory and modelling of bike traffic followed by model verification techniques and riding characteristics for context.

This book contains valuable information for researchers involved with intelligent transportation systems, traffic modelling and simulation, and particularly those with an especial interest in bicycle traffic. The book will also be of interest to advanced students in these and related fields, and transportation policymakers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785619519
Publisher:	The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Publication date:	08/27/2021
Series:	Transportation
Pages:	377
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ling Huang, PhD is an associate professor in the School of Civil Engineering and Transportation at South China Universityof Technology, China. She is also a member of Traffic Modeling and Simulation Professional Committee of China. Her research interests include cyclist behaviour, bicycle sharing system, traffic simulation, behaviour analysis, driving behaviour, pedestrian, computer vision and traffic simulation applications.

Jianping Wu, PhD is a professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University, China, and director of the Future Transport Research Centre of Tsinghua University, the Universityof Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is associate editor of IET Intelligent Transport Systems, a fellow of the IET, member of the Environment and Engineering Committee (CEE) of the WFEO, executive director of the China Association of Simulation, and “Cheung Kong Scholar” Professor of the Ministry Education of China.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Section bicycle individual riding characteristics
• Chapter 2: Microscopic bicycle microscopic riding characteristics
• Chapter 3: Bicycle microscopic behavioural characteristics at signalized intersections
• Chapter 4: Cyclists' crossing behaviour model at signalized intersection
• Chapter 5: Bicycle microscopic behaviour analysis patterns
• Chapter 6: Analysis of bicycle microscopic behaviour at un-signalized intersections
• Chapter 7: Microscopic behaviour model of bicycle crossing un-signalized intersections
• Chapter 8: Empirical analysis of bicycle microscopic behaviour model
• Chapter 9: Confirmation of validity of bicycle microscopic behaviour model
• Chapter 10: Neural network-based bicycle collision avoidance behavioural model at un-signalized intersections