REPORT ON THE COMMITTEE ON NIGHT VISIBILITY

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE COMMITTEE ARE: (1) TO ASSEMBLE RESULTS OF RESEARCHES IN THE WHOLE FIELD OF NIGHT SEEING AND TO DETERMINE WHEREIN ADDITIONAL RESEARCHES ARE NEEDED; (2) TO ENCOURAGE ORGANIZATIONS AND PERSONS FITTED TO DO SO TO CONDUCT NEEDED RESEARCHES ON SUBJECTS RELATING TO NIGHT VISIBILITY; AND (3) TO COORDINATE AND BRING TO PUBLIC ATTENTION, RESULTS OF RESEARCHES ON NIGHT VISIBILITY. A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON NIGHT VISIBILITY SUBJECTS WAS COMPLETED. SUBJECTS UNDER SCRUTINY ARE: (1) HEADLIGHT DIMMING OR DEPRESSING, (2) USE OF COLORED EYEGLASSES FOR REDUCING GLARE, (3) HIGHWAY LIGHTING, (4) ROADWAY DELINEATION, AND (5) POLARIZED MOTOR VEHICLE HEADLIGHTING. /AUTHOR/

• Record URL:
  • https://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrbproceedings/28/28-046.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 28, pp 508-513. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Marsh, B W
• Publication Date: 1949

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board Held at Washington, D.C. December 7-10, 1948
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Board Proceedings
  • Volume: 28
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bibliographies; Eyeglasses; Headlamps; Highway delineators; Highway design; Night visibility; Research; Street lighting
• Old TRIS Terms: Highway delineation
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221318
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 27 1971 12:00AM