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Combining environmental quality assessment of bicycle infrastructures with vertical acceleration measurements

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  • Nuñez, Javier Yesid Mahecha
  • Bisconsini, Danilo Rinaldi
  • Rodrigues da Silva, Antônio Nélson

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Growing interest in zero emission transport modes, such as cycling, is currently generating motivation to construct new cycle paths. However, transportation planners and managers cannot always rely on practical methods for allocating the resources (often limited) needed for inventories and assessing cycling infrastructures. The aim of this study is to develop a method for classifying cycle paths in terms of roughness and general conditions of the pavement surface. Inventory data and information regarding the infrastructure conditions were collected on-site using video recordings taken by an action camera directly mounted on a bicycle. Georeferenced vertical acceleration data were collected using a smartphone. Acceleration data of three different pavement surfaces (asphalt, concrete and concrete bricks) were registered. The results showed the lowest acceleration values for concrete pavement and the highest values for interlocking concrete pavement. The proposed method can be a practical and efficient approach to evaluate cycling infrastructures in terms of pavement condition.

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  • Nuñez, Javier Yesid Mahecha & Bisconsini, Danilo Rinaldi & Rodrigues da Silva, Antônio Nélson, 2020. "Combining environmental quality assessment of bicycle infrastructures with vertical acceleration measurements," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 137(C), pages 447-458.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transa:v:137:y:2020:i:c:p:447-458
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2018.10.032
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