LIDAR, Electric Bikes, and Transportation Safety – Phase II
Mobile light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technology offers a significant opportunity to increase transportation safety and efficiency. Moreover, electric bikes (e-bikes) provide a potentially important avenue to facilitate large reductions in greenhouse gases and hazardous emissions while promoting the usage of public transportation. However, little research exists at the crossroads of these two technologies. Hence, the second year of this project will expand the prior e-bike LIDAR testing efforts to obtain quantitative and qualitative data on its operation under low, medium, and heavy traffic scenarios on campus. Data will include e-bike battery and motor parameters while also capturing the interaction of this e-bike with the surrounding pedestrians, other cyclists, and motor vehicles. This will result in the development of e-bike models for driving simulator, gap acceptance, and emissions reduction studies. Furthermore, a re-envisioning of this inexpensive mobile LIDAR system will occur in order to facilitate extensions to other transportation-based safety outcomes, such as pavement quality monitoring.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $108395
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Contract Numbers:
69A3551747107
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Sponsor Organizations:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590Mid-America Transportation Center
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2200 Vine Street, PO Box 830851
Lincoln, NE United States 68583-0851 -
Managing Organizations:
Mid-America Transportation Center
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2200 Vine Street, PO Box 830851
Lincoln, NE United States 68583-0851 -
Project Managers:
Stearns, Amy
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Performing Organizations:
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Department of Civil Engineering, 2006 Learned Hall
Lawrence, KS United States 66045-2225 -
Principal Investigators:
Depcik, Chris
- Start Date: 20181127
- Expected Completion Date: 20191231
- Actual Completion Date: 20191231
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
- Source Data: 91994-27
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bicycles; Detection and identification technologies; Driving simulators; Electric batteries; Electric vehicles; Gap acceptance; Laser radar; Pollutants; Traffic safety; Vehicle mix
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01692207
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Mid-America Transportation Center
- Contract Numbers: 69A3551747107
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Feb 4 2019 4:52PM