Visual attention and speeds of pedestrians, cyclists, and electric scooter riders when using shared road – a field eye tracker experiment

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F22%3A73611440" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/22:73611440 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213624X22000153" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213624X22000153</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2022.01.015" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.cstp.2022.01.015</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Visual attention and speeds of pedestrians, cyclists, and electric scooter riders when using shared road – a field eye tracker experiment

Original language description

Shared roads for pedestrians and bicycles are common in modern cities. Recently, such roads are frequently utilised also by riders of electric scooters, which, being a novel personal transport means, are not regulated uniformly. Analysis of visual attention of young people who travelled the same shared road as pedestrians, as bicyclists, and as electric scooter riders was done with a mobile eye tracker. The results demonstrate that the numbers of fixations per minute for people using these transport modes were similar, but their distribution was different. The road ahead was observed much more by riders (39–43% of all their fixations) than by pedestrians (25% of all their fixations). Pedestrians frequently looked at the sides (40% of their fixations), while riders did not. Observation of other pedestrian road users by test participants travelling on feet took 26% of their fixations; for riders, the number increased to 35–38%, which indicates visual search for potential hazards while riding. Average speeds of pedestrians were high, 5.9 km/h; bicycle riders travelled at 16.8 km/h and electric scooters were ridden at 16.5 km/h. Thus, based on visual attention of electric scooters riders and their velocity, their vehicles ought to be classified as a special variation of a bicycle for most of regulatory, practical, and road safety purposes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20104 - Transport engineering

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Case Studies on Transport Policy

ISSN

2213-624X

e-ISSN

2213-6258

Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

549-558

UT code for WoS article

000777213000005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85123716462