PASSING BEHAVIOR ON PUBLIC HIGHWAYS UNDER DAYTIME AND NIGHTTIME CONDITIONS
THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF NIGHTTIME VISIBILITY CONDITIONS ON THE PASSING BEHAVIOR OF DRIVERS ON TWO-LANE PUBLIC HIGHWAYS. THE EXPERIMENT WAS OBSERVATIONAL IN THE SENSE THAT THE DRIVERS WHOSE PASSING BEHAVIOR WAS OBSERVED HAPPENED ALONG FORTUITOUSLY AND HAD NO IDEA THAT THEY WERE TAKING PART IN AN EXPERIMENT, OR THAT THEIR PASSING BEHAVIOR WAS BEING OBSERVED. THE DATA WERE OBTAINED ONLY AT NIGHT, BUT AT THE SAME SITE AND UNDER IDENTICAL CONDITIONS IN WHICH DATA WERE COLLECTED DURING THE DAY IN A PREVIOUS FRANKLIN INSTITUTE CONTRACT WITH THE U. S. BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS. THE DAYTIME DATA FROM THE PREVIOUS CONTRACT ARE REPORTED ALONG WITH THE NIGHTTIME DATA IN THE PRESENTATION OF THE RESULTS. /AUTHOR/
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Supplemental Notes:
- Paper sponsored by Committee on Road User Characteristics and presented at the 48th 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.
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Authors:
- Farber, Eugene
- Publication Date: 1969
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures;
- Pagination: pp 11-23
- Monograph Title: Drivers and driving
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Serial:
- Highway Research Record
- Issue Number: 292
- Publisher: Highway Research Board
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Behavior; Daylight; Drivers; Night visibility; Passing; Visibility
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00223084
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: Paper No 1
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Mar 9 1970 12:00AM