SOME PROBLEMS IN THE DESIGN OF IMPROVED VEHICLE REARLIGHTING CONFIGURATIONS

PROBLEMS RELATING TO THE APPLICATION OF THE RESULTS OF VARIOUS EXPERIMENTS ON THE DESIGN OF IMPROVED REARLIGHTING CONFIGURATIONS ARE DISCUSSED. THE CONCLUSION IS DRAWN THAT, IN VIEW OF THE GREAT UNCERTAINTY THAT WILL REMAIN ABOUT THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF INTRODUCING AN IMPROVED CONFIGURATION, COMPARATIVELY LITTLE BENEFIT WILL BE DERIVED FROM EXPERIMENTS WITH COMPLETE CONFIGURATIONS UNDER REALISTIC DRIVING CONDITIONS. AN APPROACH IS SUGGESTED WHEREBY RECOMMENDATIONS ARE BASED ON AN ANALYSIS OF THE DRIVING TASK AND AVAILABLE LITERATURE OF A MORE GENERAL NATURE. SOME EXAMPLES ARE GIVEN OF CONSIDERATIONS TO BE ALLOWED FOR IN DESIGNING IMPROVED CONFIGURATIONS. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV

  Bezuidenhoutseweg 62
  The Hague,   Netherlands  2594 AW
• Authors:
  • ROSZBACH, R
• Publication Date: 1972

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 8 p.
• Serial:
  • Psychological Aspects of Driver Behaviour
  • Publisher: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design; Driving; Evaluation; Recommendations; Vehicle characteristics; Vehicle lighting
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driving conditions
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222493
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Conf Paper, HS-013 476, HS-013 490
• Contract Numbers: PHS-UI00066
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 11 1974 12:00AM