REACTION TIME, VISUAL PERFORMANCE AND LIGHTING SPECIFICATIONS

In an effort to improve visual conditions and hence visual performance, lighting engineers have erected fixed lighting installations to (I) raise the general adaptation level of the driver and hence his sensitivity to vision, (II) provide light to reveal objects on the roadway or its surrounds, and (III) delineate the roadway by virtue of the line of luminaires. The effectiveness of this effort, for a certain standard of lighting, is evidenced by the decrease in the number and severity of collisions at night and its viability on a cost/benefit analysis. /Author/TRRL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was presented at the 13th Conference of the Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand.
• Corporate Authors:

  Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand

  Canberra, ACT,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • HALL, R R
  • FISHER, A J
• Publication Date: 1976-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 19 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Benefit cost analysis; Brightness; Conferences; Costs; Crash rates; Dark adaptation; Drivers; Field of vision; Hazards; Highway design; Light; Luminance; Luminous intensity; Motor reactions; Night; Night visibility; Obstructions (Navigation); Performance based specifications; Prevention; Reaction time; Safety; Specifications; Street lighting; Surface course (Pavements); Surfacing; Visibility; Vision
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis; Driver reaction
• ITRD Terms: 1661: Accident prevention; 1612: Accident rate; 8525: Conference; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 2086: Dark adaptation; 1772: Driver; 2056: Field of vision; 505: Light intensity; 3033: Lightening (road surface); 545: Lighting (street); 525: Luminance; 9045: Micro; 1644: Obstacle; 2247: Reaction (human); 177: Specifications; 2972: Surfacing; 6783: Visibility
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Vehicles and Equipment; I85: Safety Devices used in Transport Infrastructure; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00165689
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 26 1978 12:00AM