Abstract
Because vehicles and bicycles run on the same roads at different speeds, there are many cases in which vehicles overtake bicycles. In such cases, communication between drivers and bicyclists is crucial for sharing intentions and facilitating cooperative behaviors. However, the main existing communication method is one-way communication from bicyclists and vehicle drivers are unable to communicate.
This study aims to clarify the appropriate number of communications between vehicle drivers and bicyclists. We considered four communication patterns between a vehicle driver and bicyclist: two-way communication, two patterns of one-way communication, and no communication. We analyzes the effects of these communication patterns on the impressions of drivers and driving behaviors. In an experiment, participants were asked to perform the actions of communication while viewing a recorded video of a scene in which a bicycle was overtaken by a vehicle approaching from behind. We then asked the participants to complete a questionnaire on their impressions of driving and communication.
We concluded that from a vehicle’s perspective, two-way communication (sending and receiving messages) is the safest and most comfortable communication method. However, from a bicycle’s perspective, it is sufficient to send a one-way message to the other party for comfortable driving.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Metropolitan Police Department Homepage. https://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.jp/about_mpd/jokyo_tokei/tokei_jokyo/bicycle.html. Accessed 23 Dec 2020. (in Japanese)
Official Statistics of Japan. https://www.e-stat.go.jp/en/stat-search/files?page=1&layout=datalist&toukei=00130002&tstat=000001027458&cycle=7&year=20190&month=0&tclass1val=0. Accessed 23 Dec 2020
Joint, M.: Road Rage. Automobile Association, London (1995)
Ford: Emoji Jacket helps people to share the road. https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/feu/en/news/2020/02/06/emoji-jacket-helps-people-to-share-the-road.html. Accessed 23 Dec 2020
Kawanaka, S., Kashimoto, Y., Firouzian, A., Arakawa, Y., Pulli, P., Yasumoto, K.: Approaching vehicle detection method with acoustic analysis using smartphone for elderly bicycle driver. In: 10th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Network, pp. 1–6 (2016)
Kaihara, S., Akaike, H.: A proposal and prototyping of the smart handle. In: Human Interface Symposium (2018)
Omoda, Y., Iwaki, R., Abe, G., Fukushima, M.: Analysis of vehicle driver’s behaviors while overtaking a bicycle focusing on differences in driving skill. Trans. Soc. Automot. Eng. Jpn. 50(2), 455–460 (2019). (in Japanese)
Kin, T.: Basic study on the traffic consciousness gap and the traffic communication between bicycle and pedestrian. J. City Plann. Inst. Jpn. 51(3), 661–666 (2016). (in Japanese)
Taniguchi, A., Yoshimura, T., Ishida, H.: A study on cooperative behavior arised by communication between vehicle and pedestrian and bicycle rider. J. Jpn. Soc. Civ. Eng. 68(5), 1115–1122 (2012). (in Japanese)
Yano, N., Mori, K.: Pedestrian-driver communication at crosswalks without signals: driver yielding gesture effects on pedestrian decisions for road crossing. Jpn. J. Traffic Psychol. 33(1), 13–27 (2017). (in Japanese)
Saito, Y., Nakano, Y., Suzuki, K., Nishida, D., Murayama, Y., Takahashi, Y.: A study of emotion awareness for human-friendly automobile society. IPSJ SIG Technical report, vol. 2014-DPS-158, no. 25, pp. 1–6 (2014). (in Japanese)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Oshiro, Y., Kitamura, T., Izumi, T. (2021). Verification of the Appropriate Number of Communications Between Drivers of Bicycles and Vehicles. In: Kurosu, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Design and User Experience Case Studies. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12764. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78468-3_29
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78468-3_29
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-78467-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-78468-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)