Ingenieurfakult�t Bau Geo Umwelt. Technische Universit�t M�nchen, Germany
October 20, 2016, 11:00, Room GR A1 402 (click here for the map)
Bicycling offers an inexpensive, environmentally friendly and compact option for urban mobility. However, issues with bicyclist safety persist in most countries. Driver assistance systems that warn drivers of the presence and potential actions of bicyclists are one possibility for mitigating these issues. In order to develop and evaluate such systems, microscopic traffic simulation software that is capable of realistically simulating bicycle traffic is necessary. However, the flexible behaviour of bicyclists makes it difficult to realistically simulate bicycle traffic using currently available simulation software. Here, a method for extracting behaviour patterns of bicyclists at intersections from video data is presented. These observed patterns are integrated with a microscopic traffic simulation, increasing the realism of simulated bicyclist behaviour and enabling the development and evaluation of driver assistance systems.
Heather Twaddle is a working on her PhD with Professor Fritz Busch at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). She has a BSc. In Civil Engineering from the University of Calgary and a MSc. in Transportation Systems from TUM.