Interesting bikes. Health. Racing. Science of Cycling: Bicycle Physics & History. History Timeline of the Bicycle. Bicycle Traffic Safety. Bicycle safety equipment. Bicycle Safety: How to Not Get Hit by Cars. Bicycle Engineering. Home ARTICLES A forensic engineer investigates accidents to determine the causes of failure. In most cases the cause, whether it is easy or difficult to discover, is not a failure of engineering design, but of conditions that exceed the capabilities that have been designed into the bicycle or the facility, or of the operator. Bicycles are not expected to survive undamaged when being ridden against curbs, curves have a maximum safe speed, human beings cannot make decisions instantly.
Engineering knowledge enables us to provide reasonable explanations for many accidents. However, there are other accidents that are caused by engineering error. As the eminent Professor Henry Petroski has wisely observed, "I believe that the concept of failure ... is central to understanding engineering, for engineering design has as its first and foremost objective the obviation of failure. ... Front Brake Design Failures Insufficient Steering Stability Estimation of Cyclists' Speeds "Safe" Brakes That Burn Up. Bicycle transportation engineering. Engineering for bicycles - From no provision in hostile environments... Engineering for bicycles - ... to dedicated cycle facilities... Engineering for bicycles - ... to providing environments in which cyclists and others can share the road safely. Bicycle transportation engineering is the sub-discipline of transportation engineering concerning bicycles as a mode of transport and the concomitant study, design and implementation of cycling infrastructure.
It includes the study and design of dedicated transport facilities for cyclists (e.g. cyclist-only paths) as well as mixed-mode environments (i.e. where cyclists share roads and paths with vehicular and foot traffic) and how both of these examples can be made to work safely. Roads[edit] Various methods of altering or reallocating the roadway right-of-way to facilitate bicycling and create bikeways have been added to many of the manuals used by transport planners and engineers.
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