THE EFFECTS OF UNDERLINING ON THE READABILITY OF HIGHWAY DESTINATION SIGNS

ON THE BASIS OF AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY, IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT UNDERLINING WOULD REDUCE THE PROBABILITY OF ASSOCIATING A DESTINATION WITH THE WRONG ARROW IN UNEQUAL-WORD-LENGTH SIGNS. UNDERLINING WOULD NOT, HOWEVER, REDUCE THIS PROBABILITY FOR EQUAL-WORD-LENGTH SIGNS, EVEN THOUGH SUCH SIGNS ARE MORE FREQUENTLY MISREAD.

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  • https://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrbproceedings/36/36-037.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 36, pp 561-574, 22 FIG, 3 TAB, 6 REF, 2 APP, 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:
  • HULBERT, S F
  • BURG, A
• Publication Date: 1957

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board, Washington, D.C., January 7-11, 1957
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Board Proceedings
  • Volume: 36
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design; Legibility; Traffic signs; Vision; Visual perception
• Old TRIS Terms: Traffic sign design
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00226018
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: May 22 1972 12:00AM