Fire Truck Visibility: Red may not be the most visible color, considering the rate of accident involvement with fire trucks

Ergonomics in Design: The Quarterly of Human Factors Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 4-10

  Solomon, Stephen S ^a   King, James G ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COLOR VISION; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; VISIBILITY;

FIRE TRUCKS;

TRUCKS;

EID: 0031125394     PISSN: 10648046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/106480469700500202     Document Type: Article

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