Study of FACE Design, Lighting System Design for Enhanced Detection Rate of Motorcycles

The FACE (Facial Attention for Conspicuity Enhancement) design, a lighting system design that enhances motorcycle conspicuity with regard to the detection rate from the view of a driver at night, is described in this paper. Past research has shown that there is part of the human brain that reacts to the image of a face and the idea was developed of a method to enhance the detection rate of a motorcycle by incorporating the element of a face in the front design of the motorcycle. The effect of a simple FACE design, a reverse triangular arrangement of lamps, is evaluated and its effectiveness is shown. Moreover, a simulation method was developed that could be used to evaluate the enhanced detection rate of a FACE design motorcycle under conditions that are close to some real traffic environments. The method is evaluated by comparing it with the results of a full-scale test and demonstrates the method could be used to evaluate the detection rate of a motorcycle. The full text of this paper may be found at: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv21/09-0406.pdf For the covering abstract see ITRD E145407.

• Authors:
  • MARUYAMA, K
  • TSUTSUMIQ, Y
  • MURATA, Y
• Publication Date: 2009

Language

• English

Media Info

• Serial:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST (ESV) INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON THE ENHANCED SAFETY OF VEHICLES, HELD JUNE 2009, STUTTGART, GERMANY
  • Publisher: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alertness; Conferences; Design; Face; Improvements; Motorcycles; Simulation; Vehicle marking; Visibility
• ITRD Terms: 2238: Attention; 8525: Conference; 9011: Design (overall design); 2011: Face (human); 9108: Improvement; 1221: Motorcycle; 9103: Simulation; 6783: Visibility
• Subject Areas: Design; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01336566
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: TRL
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Apr 15 2011 3:59PM