WHITE OR YELLOW LIGHT? 4 (END)
WIT OF GEEL LICHT? 4(SLOT)
The psychology of perception does not give any useful indication of preference for any colour for the type of visual perception prevailing in road traffic. Some side-effects, notably psychological glare (discomfort glare), result in preference for yellow light. There is, however, little ground to expect this small difference in discomfort glare to have any appreciable effect on road safety. It may be noted that this (small) advantage of yellow light is hardly mentioned in the literature, not even by the protagonists of yellow light. Although the recognition and the perceptibility of signalling lights might depend upon the colour of light, the difference in colour is far too small to be used as a coding dimension. And finally, there is no reason to believe that fatigue is influenced by the colour of light. (A) /TRRL/
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Corporate Authors:
Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB
Wassenaarseweg 220, P.O. Box 93200
The Hague, Netherlands -
Authors:
- SCHREUDER, D A
- Publication Date: 1975-4
Language
- Dutch
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: p. 176-179
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Serial:
- Verkeerskunde
- Volume: 26
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: NWB BV/Royal Dutch Touring Club
- ISSN: 0377-8495
- Serial URL: http://www.verkeerskunde.nl
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Age; Color; Color vision; Drivers; Driving; Fatigue (Physiological condition); Glare; Headlamps; Highway safety; Perception; Psychological adaptation; Speed; Traffic signals; Visibility; Vision; Visual perception; Whites; Yellow
- Old TRIS Terms: Driver perception; Yellow light
- ITRD Terms: 2208: Adaptation (psychol); 1757: Age; 1855: Driving (veh); 2222: Fatigue (human); 1677: Glare; 1342: Headlamp; 2229: Perception; 6748: Sound; 5408: Speed; 565: Traffic signal; 6783: Visibility; 2066: Vision; 9089: White; 9092: Yellow
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00128156
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
- Files: ITRD, TRIS
- Created Date: Apr 7 1976 12:00AM