IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v17y2020i9p3256-d354861.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Unsafe Bicycling Behavior in Changsha, China: A Video-Based Observational Study

Author

Listed:
  • Yuyan Gao

    (Dongcheng District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100009, China
    Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics; Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha 410078, China)

  • David C. Schwebel

    (Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA)

  • Lingling Zhang

    (Department of Nursing, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 021125, USA)

  • Wangxin Xiao

    (Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics; Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha 410078, China)

  • Guoqing Hu

    (Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics; Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha 410078, China)

Abstract

The recent emergence of shared bikes has inspired renewed use of bicycles in urban China. However, incidence rates of unsafe cycling behaviors have not been reported using objective methods. We designed a video-based observational study in Changsha, China to estimate the incidence of five unsafe bicycling behaviors among both shared and personal bike riders and examine incidence differences across types of riders and cycling areas. A total of 112 h of video recorded 13,407 cyclists riding shared bikes and 2061 riding personal bikes. The incidences of not wearing a helmet, violating traffic lights, riding in the opposite direction of traffic, not holding the handlebar with both hands, and riding in a non-bicycle lane were 99.28%, 19.57%, 13.73%, 2.57%, and 64.06%, respectively. The incidence rate of all five kinds of behaviors differed significantly across four types of riding areas (shopping, university, office, and leisure) and the rates of the first three kinds of behaviors were statistically different between shared and personal bike riders. In situations where bicycle lanes were available, we observed the incidence of riding on the motorway and on the sidewalk to be 44.06% and 19.99%, respectively. We conclude that unsafe cycling behaviors occur with alarming frequency and differ somewhat between riders of shared versus personal bikes. Further research is recommended to interpret the occurrence of risky cycling and the incidence differences across types of riders and cycling areas.

Suggested Citation

  • Yuyan Gao & David C. Schwebel & Lingling Zhang & Wangxin Xiao & Guoqing Hu, 2020. "Unsafe Bicycling Behavior in Changsha, China: A Video-Based Observational Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(9), pages 1-10, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:9:p:3256-:d:354861
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/9/3256/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/9/3256/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Kraemer, J.D. & Roffenbender, J.S. & Anderko, L., 2012. "Helmet wearing among users of a public bicycle-sharing program in the district of columbia and comparable riders on personal bicycles," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 102(8), pages 23-25.
    2. Ying Zhang & Tom Thomas & M J G Brussel & M F A M van Maarseveen, 2016. "Expanding Bicycle-Sharing Systems: Lessons Learnt from an Analysis of Usage," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(12), pages 1-25, December.
    3. Changzheng Yuan & Yangbo Sun & Jun Lv & Anne C. Lusk, 2017. "Cycle Tracks and Parking Environments in China: Learning from College Students at Peking University," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(8), pages 1-14, August.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Guoqiang Zhang & Qiqi Zhou & Jun Chen, 2021. "Exploring Factors Impacting on the Lane Choice of Riders of Non-Motorized Vehicles at Exit Legs of Signalized At-Grade Intersections," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(12), pages 1-17, June.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Shifang Liu & Shaohua Tan, 2022. "Building a New Framework for Urban Parking Facilities Research with Quality Improvement: The Case of Chongqing, China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(1), pages 1-24, December.
    2. Lovelace, Robin & Beecham, Roger & Heinen, Eva & Vidal Tortosa, Eugeni & Yang, Yuanxuan & Slade, Chris & Roberts, Antonia, 2020. "Is the London Cycle Hire Scheme becoming more inclusive? An evaluation of the shifting spatial distribution of uptake based on 70 million trips," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 140(C), pages 1-15.
    3. Zhan Gao & Sheng Wei & Lei Wang & Sijia Fan, 2020. "Exploring the Spatial-Temporal Characteristics of Traditional Public Bicycle Use in Yancheng, China: A Perspective of Time Series Cluster of Stations," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-17, August.
    4. Maas, Suzanne & Nikolaou, Paraskevas & Attard, Maria & Dimitriou, Loukas, 2021. "Examining spatio-temporal trip patterns of bicycle sharing systems in Southern European island cities," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    5. Suzanne Maas & Paraskevas Nikolaou & Maria Attard & Loukas Dimitriou, 2021. "Heat, Hills and the High Season: A Model-Based Comparative Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Factors Affecting Shared Bicycle Use in Three Southern European Islands," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-21, March.
    6. Yangkun Xia & Zhuo Fu & Sang-Bing Tsai & Jiangtao Wang, 2018. "A New TS Algorithm for Solving Low-Carbon Logistics Vehicle Routing Problem with Split Deliveries by Backpack—From a Green Operation Perspective," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(5), pages 1-12, May.
    7. David Kohlrautz & Tobias Kuhnimhof, 2024. "Bicycle Parking Requirements in City Building Codes and Their Potential to Promote Sustainability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(6), pages 1-13, March.
    8. Jain, Taru & Wang, Xinyi & Rose, Geoffrey & Johnson, Marilyn, 2018. "Does the role of a bicycle share system in a city change over time? A longitudinal analysis of casual users and long-term subscribers," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 45-57.
    9. Schimohr, Katja & Scheiner, Joachim, 2021. "Spatial and temporal analysis of bike-sharing use in Cologne taking into account a public transit disruption," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    10. Tae San Kim & Won Kyung Lee & So Young Sohn, 2019. "Graph convolutional network approach applied to predict hourly bike-sharing demands considering spatial, temporal, and global effects," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(9), pages 1-16, September.
    11. Liu, Junrong & Duan, Qihong & Ma, Wen-Xiu, 2020. "The evolution of a clogging sidewalk caused by a dockless bicycle-sharing system: A stochastic particles model," Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), Elsevier, vol. 177(C), pages 516-526.
    12. Norbert Mundorf & Colleen A. Redding & Songtao Bao, 2018. "Sustainable Transportation and Health," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-4, March.
    13. Ahmadreza Faghih-Imani & Naveen Eluru, 2020. "A finite mixture modeling approach to examine New York City bicycle sharing system (CitiBike) users’ destination preferences," Transportation, Springer, vol. 47(2), pages 529-553, April.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:9:p:3256-:d:354861. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.