Development of Compatibility Evaluation Systems for Diversifying Personal Mobilities and Road Management

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24360203
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
• Research Institution: Ibaraki University
• Principal Investigator: KIN TOSHIAKI 茨城大学, 工学部, 教授 (40205050)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YAMANAKA Hideo 徳島大学, ソシオテクノサイエンス研部, 教授 (20166755) ; YOSIDA Nagahiro 大阪市立大学, 工学研究科, 講師 (20326250)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: パーソナルモビリティ / コンパティビリティ / 共存性 / 自転車 / セグウェイ / シニアカー / 交通規則 / 道路再配分

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Recently in Japan, personal compact transports are remarkably diversifying by reason of social changes such as the needs for high mobility, aged society, and environmental problems. The characteristics are electrification and miniaturization. Then some transports are nearly same in size, performance, and form , though those legal positioning is different. So it is difficult to distinguish the similar modes.　Firstly, this paper grasps the tendency of the diversification and traffic problems on road and depicts the points for the compatibility of the transports on the road. Secondly, applicability of three evaluation methods for the road space-BCC・Satisfaction Measurement・Stress Measurement-, is inproved. Finally, the traffic conscious gap between one and the other is found , and it is clear that the new communication tools (ring the bell, saying something, etc.) is necessary.

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