Abstract
Cyclists as unprotected road users are one of the most vulnerable groups of travelers. In order to improve their safety, various activities are carried out. Interested results are presented in Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) report - Report 12-54: Bike-sharing and Bicycle Safety from 2016. It points out that there are no fatalities among users of city bike sharing systems in the United States. Due to the growing interest in systems in Poland, authors focused on the analysis of aspects related to the safety of their use. The paper presents factors that affect the road traffic safety of bike-sharing users. Authors referred to international practices used in cities bike-sharing systems and presented bike-sharing systems as an opportunity to support the implementation of Vision Zero.
Highlights
Traveling with the use of a bicycle as a mean of transport is the second, after walking, the healthiest, most ecological and socially propagated form of movement [1,2].For cyclists, it is one of the options to facilitate movement in city traffic with increased congestion and problems with finding a parking space [3,4]
Statistics indicate that cyclists in Poland during 2016 participated in 4 737 road accidents in which 271 cyclists were killed [12]
Bike-sharing are services that operate in urban transport systems
Summary
Traveling with the use of a bicycle as a mean of transport is the second, after walking, the healthiest, most ecological and socially propagated form of movement [1,2] It is one of the options to facilitate movement in city traffic with increased congestion and problems with finding a parking space [3,4]. It is an alternative form of traveling, desired during implementing the concept of sustainable urban mobility or searching for attractive sustainable transport good practices [5,6,7,8,9,10]. The examples presented in this paper can be used as a guide during the implementation of new bike-sharing systems
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