EFFECT OF SIGN POSITION AND BRIGHTNESS ON SEEING SIMULATED HIGHWAY SIGNS

SIMULATED INTERSTATE GREEN SIGNS OF VARYING BRIGHTNESSES WERE SHOWN TO SUBJECTS AGAINST TYPICAL HIGHWAY BACKGROUNDS. SUBJECTS WERE ASKED TO INDICATE WHICH SIGNS THEY COULD SEE BEST UNDER THE VARIOUS CONDITIONS DEPICTED, AND WERE SIMULTANEOUSLY REQUIRED TO ENGAGE IN AN AUXILIARY TASK INVOLVING FIXATION UPON SMALL RED LIGHTS AT ROAD LEVEL. EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED WERE DESIGNED TO STUDY THE VARIABLES OF SIGN POSITION AND BRIGHTNESS IN RELATION TO EASE OF SEEING SIGNS UNDER SIMULATED HIGHWAY CONDITIONS. /AUTHOR/

• Record URL:
  http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrr/1967/164/164-005.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Paper sponsored by Committee on Night Visibility and presented at the 45th Annual Meeting. 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:
  • Forbes, T W
  • Pain, R F
  • Fry Jr, J P
  • Joyce, R P
• Publication Date: 1967

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 29-37
• Monograph Title: Night visibility
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Record
  • Issue Number: 164
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Brightness; Drivers; Interstate highways; Location; Position fixing; Signs; Simulation; Visibility; Vision
• Old TRIS Terms: Driver vision
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00219908
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-000 708
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 20 1994 12:00AM