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Micromobility Users’ Behaviour and Perceived Risk during Meeting Manoeuvres
Mobility patterns and lifestyles have changed in recent years in cities worldwide, thanks to the strong rise in modes of travel commonly referred to as micromobility. In this context, e-scooters have experienced a great rise globally which has led to an increase of crashes involving this type of mic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8656849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34886198 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312465 |
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author | Fonseca-Cabrera, Alejandra Sofía Llopis-Castelló, David Pérez-Zuriaga, Ana María Alonso-Troyano, Carlos García, Alfredo |
author_facet | Fonseca-Cabrera, Alejandra Sofía Llopis-Castelló, David Pérez-Zuriaga, Ana María Alonso-Troyano, Carlos García, Alfredo |
author_sort | Fonseca-Cabrera, Alejandra Sofía |
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description | Mobility patterns and lifestyles have changed in recent years in cities worldwide, thanks to the strong rise in modes of travel commonly referred to as micromobility. In this context, e-scooters have experienced a great rise globally which has led to an increase of crashes involving this type of micromobility vehicle in urban areas. Thus, there is a need to study e-scooter users’ behaviour and their interaction with cyclists. This research aimed at characterizing the meeting manoeuvre between micromobility users along diverse typologies of two-way bicycle track by using an instrumented e-scooter. As a result, bicycle tracks having concrete or vegetated curb presented lower clearance distance (≈0.8 m) than those without edge elements (>1 m), with no statistically significant differences found between the interaction with bicycles and e-scooters. Additionally, an online questionnaire was proposed to assess users’ perceived risk during the meeting manoeuvre, concluding that micromobility users feel safer and more comfortable riding on pavements away from parked or moving motorized traffic, and on protected bicycle tracks. |
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spelling | pubmed-86568492021-12-10 Micromobility Users’ Behaviour and Perceived Risk during Meeting Manoeuvres Fonseca-Cabrera, Alejandra Sofía Llopis-Castelló, David Pérez-Zuriaga, Ana María Alonso-Troyano, Carlos García, Alfredo Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Mobility patterns and lifestyles have changed in recent years in cities worldwide, thanks to the strong rise in modes of travel commonly referred to as micromobility. In this context, e-scooters have experienced a great rise globally which has led to an increase of crashes involving this type of micromobility vehicle in urban areas. Thus, there is a need to study e-scooter users’ behaviour and their interaction with cyclists. This research aimed at characterizing the meeting manoeuvre between micromobility users along diverse typologies of two-way bicycle track by using an instrumented e-scooter. As a result, bicycle tracks having concrete or vegetated curb presented lower clearance distance (≈0.8 m) than those without edge elements (>1 m), with no statistically significant differences found between the interaction with bicycles and e-scooters. Additionally, an online questionnaire was proposed to assess users’ perceived risk during the meeting manoeuvre, concluding that micromobility users feel safer and more comfortable riding on pavements away from parked or moving motorized traffic, and on protected bicycle tracks. MDPI 2021-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8656849/ /pubmed/34886198 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312465 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Fonseca-Cabrera, Alejandra Sofía Llopis-Castelló, David Pérez-Zuriaga, Ana María Alonso-Troyano, Carlos García, Alfredo Micromobility Users’ Behaviour and Perceived Risk during Meeting Manoeuvres |
title | Micromobility Users’ Behaviour and Perceived Risk during Meeting Manoeuvres |
title_full | Micromobility Users’ Behaviour and Perceived Risk during Meeting Manoeuvres |
title_fullStr | Micromobility Users’ Behaviour and Perceived Risk during Meeting Manoeuvres |
title_full_unstemmed | Micromobility Users’ Behaviour and Perceived Risk during Meeting Manoeuvres |
title_short | Micromobility Users’ Behaviour and Perceived Risk during Meeting Manoeuvres |
title_sort | micromobility users’ behaviour and perceived risk during meeting manoeuvres |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8656849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34886198 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312465 |
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