REFLECTION FACTORS FOR PEDESTRIAN'S CLOTHING

Results taken during January 1975 from 1024 randomly selected pedestrians in the Netherlands are compared with those obtained by FC Smith in England during the winter of 1937. Two measurements were made on the subject, one on each of the most dominant article of clothing above and below the waist. The subjects were classified according to age and sex. Measurement sites chosen included a city, its suburb, a provincial town and two villages. The results, presented as histograms and cumulative frequency curves, showed an increased use of lightly coloured garments in 1975 compared with 1937. The distribution of luminous factors in city, town and suburb were all similar, villages had higher values. People over 55 years old wore the darkest clothing and it was found that 3.6 per cent of all those measured wore some kind of reflectors. The authors explain why some bias may be present in the results. (TRRL)

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• Corporate Authors:

  Illuminating Engineering Society

  York House, 199 Westminster Bridge Road
  London SE1 7UN,   England 
• Authors:
  • Hansen, E R
  • Larsen, J S
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 154-157
• Serial:
  • Lighting Research and Technology
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Limited
  • ISSN: 1477-1535
  • Serial URL: http://lrt.sagepub.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Clothing; Color; Gender; Human characteristics; Luminance; Measurement; Measuring instruments; Pedestrian safety; Pedestrians; Reflectivity; Reflectorized materials; Rural areas; Sampling; Stochastic processes; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands; United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Pedestrian characteristics; Pedestrian protection
• ITRD Terms: 6155: Apparatus (measuring); 525: Luminance; 6136: Measurement; 8078: Netherlands; 1733: Pedestrian; 5926: Reflectivity; 4523: Reflectorized material; 328: Rural area; 8119: United Kingdom; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00311799
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 22 1980 12:00AM