Measuring Stress Levels for Real-World On-Road Cyclists: Do Bicycle Facilities, Intersections and Traffic Levels Affect Cyclists' Stress?

Authors

Álvaro Caviedes, Portland State UniversityFollow

Files

Streaming Media

Date

1-20-2017

Description

This research effort presents a novel approach to measure cyclists’ stress: real-world, on-road measurements of physiological stress as cyclists travel across different types of bicycle facilities in various traffic volumes. This study addresses the question of how the characteristics of a bicycle trip affect stress levels using physiological data, specifically GSR. As detailed in the next section, GSR-based studies have been successfully employed for many years in the psychological field to recognize and associate emotions and behaviors to physiological responses. The three research questions examined in this study are: i) Does peak traffic impact cyclists’ stress levels? ii) Do intersections impact cyclists’ stress levels? and iii) Does facility type impact cyclists’ stress levels?

Biographical Information

Álvaro Caviedes is an M.S. Student, Civil & Environmental Engineering at Portland State University. He is a M.U.R.P. Student, Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban studies and Planning, has a B.S. in Civil Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, 2013, and currently works for PSU as a Graduate Research Assistant.

Subjects

Urban transportation, Cyclists -- Stress (Physiology) -- Measurement, Transportation -- Planning -- Oregon -- Portland, Transportation and state

Disciplines

Transportation | Urban Studies | Urban Studies and Planning

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/19037

Recommended Citation

Caviedes, Álvaro, "Measuring Stress Levels for Real-World On-Road Cyclists: Do Bicycle Facilities, Intersections and Traffic Levels Affect Cyclists' Stress?" (2017). PSU Transportation Seminars. 104.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/19037