VISION AT LEVELS OF NIGHT ROAD ILLUMINATION. PART IX LITERATURE 1963

A SURVEY WAS MADE OF 1963 ARTICLES RELATING TO VISION AT LEVELS OF NIGHT ROAD ILLUMINATION. VISION WAS CONSIDERED THE MAJOR FACTOR NECESSARY FOR GOOD DRIVING, BUT OTHER FACTORS ARE OF CONCERN WITH TRIGGERING AN ACCIDENT. SOME OF THE FACTORS MENTIONED WERE OPHTALMOLOGICAL PROBLEMS, ROADWAY LIGHTING, HEADLIGHT GLARE, SIGN ILLUMINATION, CAR DECELERATION SIGNAL, ILLUMINATION LEVELS DARK ADAPTION, NIGHT VISION TESTS, TINTED WINDSHIELDS, SUNGLASSES, COLOR SENSITIVITY, AND DRUG EFFECT ON VISION.

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• Authors:
  • Richards, Oscar W
• Publication Date: 1965

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 41-47
• Monograph Title: Night Visibility 1963 and 1964
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Record
  • Issue Number: 70
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Color vision; Deceleration; Drugs; Glare; Glass; Headlamps; Indicators (Instruments); Lighting; Motor vehicles; Night; Night visibility; Night vision; Reviews; Signs; Street lighting; Testing; Tinted glass; Variables; Vision; Warning devices; Warning signals; Windshields
• Uncontrolled Terms: Illumination level; Intensity
• Old TRIS Terms: Light/illumination/; Ophthalmological problems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00219547
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 12 1994 12:00AM