Research Article

Predicting Free Flow Speed and Crash Risk of Bicycle Traffic Flow Using Artificial Neural Network Models

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of model parameters.

Parameters typesDesignationMaxMinMeanSD

Cycleway featuresCycleway width (m)CW4.602.273.460.74

Traffic flow parametersBicycle flow (bicycles/h/m)FB136472590302

Bicycle types% of BSEBPBS42.31%3.75%16.78%5.79%
% of SSEBPSS79.59%29.61%53.11%10.56%

Characteristics of cyclists% of male cyclistsPMC92.75%43.54%65.64%8.48%
% of young cyclistsPYC92.02%22.50%64.14%14.13%
% of middle-aged cyclistsPMAC62.38%4.80%28.10%11.82%
% of loaded cyclistsPLC30.00%1.32%11.19%5.67%