Different Strokes For Different Yokes

Thanks for the link: http://www.trl.co.uk/online_store/reports_publications/trl_reports/cat_road_user_safety/report_drivers_perceptions_of_cyclists.htm

Interesting paper that is utterly crap, cause the writers were probably ignorant of best practice cycling and how it helps also motorists, so they fail to notice that the needed solution is to cyclists to use best practices and the motorists told how and why cyclists should/do behave like that.

Have you read the paper?

Look at the findings on pp.19-24 re: cyclist positioning and behaviour and how this affected driver perceptions in scenarios with refuges, cycle lanes and cycle lanes combined with refuges:

Different road positions were considered as were other variables:

a cyclist travelling straight ahead along the road to the left hand side of the carriageway;
a cyclist travelling straight ahead along the road in the centre of the carriageway. This cyclist was positioned so that they were outside the area designated as an advisory cycle lane in the Worlds where a lane existed;
and a randomised ‘wobbly’ cyclist, who veered back and forth at random within fixed parameters.