A new training methods for elderly to avoid from serious bicycle accident

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26560379
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Applied health science
Research Institution	Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Principal Investigator	Uetake Teruo 東京農工大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 教授 (10168619)
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywords	高齢者 / 自転車 / 事故防止 / 交通システム / 交差点 / ラウンドアバウト / 転倒防止 / トレーニング
Outline of Final Research Achievements	Balance ability when an elderly person and a youth rode a bicycle using an angular velocity meter attached to a bicycle was measured. As a result, the big drift suggested that I existed in addition to the drift that was short and quick for an elderly person, too. In addition, as the transportation system which traffic three persons (car, bicycle, walker) were satisfied with together, the effectiveness of the round about intersection was inspected. it was recognized that the round about had enough possibility to solve the present problem and problem in the signal intersection system that traffic three persons mixed.