Interaction behaviour of active mobility users in shared footpath

• Main Author: Hang, Ming Jun
• Other Authors: Lum Kit Meng
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177295
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Active mobility (AM) devices have seen a rising trend all around the world especially in cities of developed countries. The rise in the usage of these devices is accompanied with exponential growth in accident rates which results in the ban in these devices on shared footpaths in some countries such as Singapore and France. Land in Singapore is limited which results in pedestrians, cyclists, and AM device users to coexists on shared paths such as Park Connector Networks (PCNs). There were many accidents that occurred before the ban with one involving a death of a cyclists, many of these accidents involve a type of AMD- Personal Mobility Device (PMD). These accidents not only put a strain in the relationship between PMD and pedestrians but also with cyclists. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify the various infrastructure improvement to facilitate the coexists of cyclists with PMD users. The main structural elements that were chosen for the analysis on the attitude of cyclists towards sharing footpath with PMD users were Lane Widths, Bollards, Regulatory Speed Strips and Additional Lane Width. A survey of 200 respondents were collected in Singapore and analysed with Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. It was found that footpath of width widened to 2.25m, addition of additional lane width at challenging locations and installation of bollards were the key infrastructure improvements on cyclists’ receptiveness in sharing footpath with PMD users. This finding also provides insight into cyclists’ perspective on infrastructure elements that increases their safety on shared footpaths and hence promote the coexistence of PMD users.