Evaluating Urban Bicycle Infrastructures through Intersubjectivity of Stress Sensations Derived from Physiological Measurements
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Case Study
2.1.1. Trip Survey
2.1.2. Final Survey
2.1.3. Participants
2.1.4. Privacy
2.2. Data Processing
2.2.1. Preprocessing
2.2.2. Map Matching
2.2.3. Stress Detection
2.2.4. Aggregation
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Werner, C.; Resch, B.; Loidl, M. Evaluating Urban Bicycle Infrastructures through Intersubjectivity of Stress Sensations Derived from Physiological Measurements. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2019, 8, 265. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8060265
Werner C, Resch B, Loidl M. Evaluating Urban Bicycle Infrastructures through Intersubjectivity of Stress Sensations Derived from Physiological Measurements. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2019; 8(6):265. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8060265
Chicago/Turabian StyleWerner, Christian, Bernd Resch, and Martin Loidl. 2019. "Evaluating Urban Bicycle Infrastructures through Intersubjectivity of Stress Sensations Derived from Physiological Measurements" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 8, no. 6: 265. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8060265