A PROPOSED PROCEDURE FOR PREDICTING PERFORMANCE ASPECTS OF ROADWAY LIGHTING IN TERMS OF VISIBILITY

The authors describe a practical method for specifying the roadway lighting required for the performance of any driving task designers agree to use as a criterion. The method was developed from extensive studies of the visibility of objectives on a 15 to scale model roadway, using the quantitative metric of visibility, effective visibility level, described in a report on visual performance by the Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE). Using a particular study in which the effective visibility level of the relevant target was measured, the authors illustrate how visibility requirements can be combined with the visibility from a given lighting system to give a task performance probability index for that system. /Authors/

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  Illuminating Engineering Society

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  New York, NY  United States  10005-4001
• Authors:
  • Blackwell, O M
  • Blackwell, H R
• Publication Date: 1977-4

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 148-166
• Serial:
  • Illuminating Engineering Society, Journal of
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Illuminating Engineering Society
  • ISSN: 0099-4480

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Forecasting; Indexes (Information management); Performance; Scale models; Street lighting; Visibility
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00156126
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 12 1978 12:00AM