cam a22 4500 528787349 20190418080100.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180924e20180801xx s 000 0 eng 10.3929/ethz-b-000290955 doi (ETHRESEARCH)oai:www.research-collection.ethz.ch:20.500.11850/290955 Studying cyclists' behavior in a non-naturalistic experiment utilizing cycling simulator with immersive virtual reality [Elektronische Daten] [Mohsen Nazemi, Michael A.B. van Eggermond, Alexander Erath, Kay W.; id_orcid 0000-0003-3331-1318 Axhausen] Singapore FCL, Singapore ETH Centre 2018 19 p. Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung 1383 Open access ethresearch This study investigates the combination immersive virtual reality (VR) and an instrumented cycling simulator for in-depth behavioral studies of cyclists. To this end, a cycling simulator was developed, virtual environments resembling Singapore were created, combined with the output of a traffic microsimulation. This set-up was created with the specific objective of evaluating the effects environment properties and road infrastructure designs on cyclists' perceived safety. Forty participants, mainly university students, were recruited for the experiment. Results showed that the average speed of the participants changes between scenes with different bicycle facilities, with the highest value for the segregated bicycle path. The braking and head movement activities also changed within each scene, where they significantly occurred more before arriving at the intersections. Questionnaire results revealed adding a painted bicycle path to a sidewalk increases the level of perceived safety. Moreover, participants felt safest for cycling on the segregated bicycle path, in line with findings from previous research. This study provides evidence that cyclists' behavior and perceptions in VR is very similar to reality and that VR, combined with a cycling simulator, is suitable to communicate (future) cycling facilities. In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0 ethresearch Nazemi Mohsen joint author van Eggermond Michael A.B. joint author Erath Alexander joint author Axhausen Kay W.; id_orcid 0000-0003-3331-1318 joint author http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/290955 text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository (Open access) 1 Working Paper ethresearch ETHRESEARCH 856 40 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/290955 text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository (Open access) ETHRESEARCH 700 1- Nazemi Mohsen joint author ETHRESEARCH 700 1- van Eggermond Michael A.B. joint author ETHRESEARCH 700 1- Erath Alexander joint author ETHRESEARCH 700 1- Axhausen Kay W.; id_orcid 0000-0003-3331-1318 joint author ETHRESEARCH 490 0- Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung 1383 SWISSBIB 528787349 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 ETHRESEARCH ETHRESEARCH ETHRESEARCH Working Paper Open access