BikeWay: A Multi-Sensory Fuzzy-Based Quality Metric for Bike Paths and Tracks in Urban Areas

Oliveira, Franklin; Costa, Daniel G.; Durán-Faúndez, Cristian; Dias, Anfranserai

doi:10.1109/access.2020.3046017

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“…Despite the city master plan to evidence the need to qualify the landscape aspect of the roads, just over 30% of the city roads have some type of shading. The shading cover on cycling axes impact the cyclist health, by increasing thermal comfort, decreasing ultraviolet radiation, in addition to reducing exposure to air pollution with its adverse aspects of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide 30,31 . A study carried out in the city of Vilhena, state of Rondônia, showed that bicycle lanes in wooded areas, built on asphalt pavement, can present an average reduction of 14 ºC in surface temperature in relation to the exposed pavement, consequently, influencing the temperature of the environment air 32 .…”

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Analysis of the quality of bicycle paths and their relationship with bicycle use in Florianópolis

Valenzuela,

Lopes,

Rescarolli

et al. 2023

JPhysEduc

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Bike lines are important structures in cities to promote active commuting. Thus, understanding the information inherent to its quality can help to understand its effects on human behavior. Assessing the quality of the bike paths in Florianopolis was the goal, using the QualiCiclo instrument and the SOPARC instrument for use profile. A total of 38 axes of cycle paths with 54 km of length were selected, and the qualitative analysis was classified as sufficient, with an overall average of 1.61 points. Observed 6,113 cyclists of which the majority were men, adults and in moderate intensity and better-quality bike paths have a greater number of cyclists (50.5%). Logistic regression analyzes showed that, usually, young people are less likely (OR:0.40; 95%CI: 0.24-0.67) to use bicycle paths classified as “good”. When observed by category, there is a greater chance of women using bike paths that have “good/excellent” quality of infrastructure and “sufficient” and “good/excellent” quality of signage. It is concluded that Florianopolis has an adequate network of cycle paths, however, the distribution of structures and cycle path connection is irregular between the regions of the city. A higher quality of bicycle path structures can promote greater use by women and the elderly, groups that perform less physical activity.

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Analysis of the quality of bicycle paths and their relationship with bicycle use in Florianópolis

Valenzuela,

Lopes,

Rescarolli

et al. 2023

JPhysEduc

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“…Despite the use of bikes for daily transportation has been much discussed in recent years, most cities around the world do not have adequate infrastructure for efficient cycling [38]. Given the aforementioned circumstances, it is very important to provide valuable information for cyclists concerning available paths, potentially alleviating the already known mobility problems [39].…”

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“…Moreover, bike paths, parking spots, trees, electric poles and even traffic lights can be endowed with IoT technologies to support smart cycling. Since the major objective of achieving a broader use of bikes still has many obstacles to deal with, such as traffic accidents involving cyclists and urban violence [39], the advent of IoT technologies can bring substantial improvements toward more sustainable cities supported by bikes.…”

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“…Then, exploiting deep learning techniques, the quality of the road is identified, potentially supporting the evaluation of bike paths. Still considering the quality of the used roads, the work in [39] exploits data from sensor devices attached to bikes to evaluate the quality of bike paths, assigning quality levels based on Fuzzy logic rules. The idea in [39] is to balance different data related to the quality of the bike paths, which may even be useful to support route planning applications.…”

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“…Still considering the quality of the used roads, the work in [39] exploits data from sensor devices attached to bikes to evaluate the quality of bike paths, assigning quality levels based on Fuzzy logic rules. The idea in [39] is to balance different data related to the quality of the bike paths, which may even be useful to support route planning applications. For the work in [70], sensors are attached to bikes in order to allow the monitoring of the air quality, using for that smartphones to transmit the collected data.…”

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A Survey of Technologies and Recent Developments for Sustainable Smart Cycling

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Among the problems resulting from the continuous urbanization process, inefficient urban mobility and high pollution levels have been complex challenges that have demanded a lot of public investments and research efforts. Recently, some alternative transportation means have been leveraged as sustainable options for such challenges, which has brought bicycles to a more relevant setting. Besides the sometimes obvious benefits of adopting bikes for transportation, technologies around the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm have been advocated as important supportive tools to boost smart cycling initiatives. Actually, new technologies can be exploited to improve the efficiency of bike paths and parking spots, while reducing accidents and enhancing the cycling experience of the users. Therefore, in this highly vibrating scenario, this article facilitates the understating of current research trends and promising developments, surveying and classing recent works. Since there is a global interest for the promotion of cleaner and more sustainable solutions in large cities, this survey can be valuable when supporting new developments in this highly relevant research area.

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