Annually, thousands of highway workers risk serious injury and health from drivers who enter work zones too fast or accelerate after entering the zone and then, because of their excess speed relative to the environmental limitations, have insufficient time to avoid accidents in the zone. Slow-moving vehicles are a problem in reducing traffic flow. This research investigated the effectiveness of a system of pulsing lights, that gave the illusion of movement (Phi phenomenon), in causing drivers to unknowingly synchronize their vehicle speed with the light pulses.
Lighted Guidance Devices: Intelligent Work Zone Traffic Control. Environmental Modulation of Drivers' Perception of Vehicle Speed
1995
138 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Transportation , Construction site traffic control , Traffic control devices , Highway safety , Driver behavior , Warning system effectiveness , Warning signals , Area traffic control , Highway construction , Velocity perception , Speed control , Motion perception , Psychology , Ligh guidance devices , Phi phenomenon , Pulsing lights
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1995
|Lighted Guidance Devices: Environmental Modulation of Driving Behavior through Work Zones
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1995
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