The ergonomics of road signs: Explicit and embedded speed limits

Ergonomics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1069-1083

  Lajunen, Timo ^a   Hakkarainen, Pertti ^a   Summala, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Drivers; Memory search; Speed limit; Traffic signs; Visual search

Indexed keywords

DECELERATION; ERGONOMICS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SPEED CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION PERSONNEL;

MEMORY SEARCH; SPEED LIMIT; VISUAL SEARCH;

TRAFFIC SIGNS;

ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVER; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; POLICE; TRAFFIC SAFETY; URBAN AREA; VELOCITY;

EID: 0030222376     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139608964528     Document Type: Article

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