Track built at Crowthorne, Berkshire, for operation by Dept Sci and Indus Research, will be used primarily for research in traffic and safety measures with particular emphasis on vehicle behavior; it is 3 mi long, in form of figure of eight, contains different test sections and types of road surface; provision is made for studying effect of color of road surface on visibility with headlamps, and also for determining effect of various types of street lighting on visibility vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians.
New road research track
Engineering
Engineering ; 190 , n 4933 ; p 628
1960
Article (Journal)
English
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