Nudging bicyclists towards a safer behavior -Experiences from the MeBeSafe project
Paper in proceeding, 2020

The European union’s official cycling strategy states that bicycle use should increase by 50 percent in ten years while at the same time halving the amount of deaths (ECF, 2019). It is therefore highly important to find safety increasing measures that are both acceptable for bicyclists and that actually work. The Horizon 2020 project MeBeSafe is investigating if nudging can be a fruitful way towards safer traffic behaviour of car and truck drivers, as well as cyclists. This paper reports on a series of quasi-experimental studies that investigated if nudging can affect bicyclists’ speed as well as trajectory. The project has so far showed that visual nudges have a great potential for affecting speed and trajectory, while haptic nudges seems to have little effect.

Speed reduction

Nudging

Cycling safety

Author

Pontus Wallgren

Design & Human Factors

Marianne Karlsson

Design & Human Factors

Victor Bergh Alvergren

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Design and Human Factors

Proceedings of 8th Transport Research Arena TRA 2020

the 8th Transport Research Arena TRA 2020
Helsinki, Finland,

Measures for behaving safely in traffic (MeBeSafe)

European Commission (EC) (EC/H2020/723430), 2017-05-01 -- 2020-10-31.

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Transport

Subject Categories

Transport Systems and Logistics

Infrastructure Engineering

Applied Psychology

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4/21/2022