THE LIGHTING OF TUNNEL ENTRANCES: THE THIRD GENERATION

TUNNELEINFAHRTBELEUCHTUNG: DIE DRITTE GENERATION

The most difficult problems of the lighting of tunnel entrances are caused by daylight, because drivers have problems with the black part of the tunnel entrance, the so-called induction effect, and they have problems with dark adaptation. During recent years many recommendations have been presented by the CIE (commission international de l'eclairage) and new techniques for the lighting of tunnel entrances have been developed. This third generation of tunnel entrance lighting is discussed. (TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV

  Bezuidenhoutseweg 62
  The Hague,   Netherlands  2594 AW
• Authors:
  • SCHREUDER, D A
• Publication Date: 1980

Language

• German

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 14 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Building entrances; Dark adaptation; Drivers; Intersection elements; Lighting systems; Luminance; Street lighting; Traffic; Tunnels; Vision
• Uncontrolled Terms: Entrances
• Old TRIS Terms: Driver vision; Entrances (Other than doors); Tunnel lighting
• ITRD Terms: 2086: Dark adaptation; 426: Entrance; 545: Lighting (street); 525: Luminance; 755: Traffic; 3374: Tunnel
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I54: Construction of Tunnels; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00335795
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Report/Paper Numbers: NR-80-27 Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 28 1981 12:00AM