Driver-headlamp dimensions, driver characteristics, and vehicle and environmental factors in retroreflective target visibility calculations

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1692, 1999, Pages 106-118

  Zwahlen, Helmut T ^a   Schnell, Thomas ^b  

^a Ohio University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; HEADLIGHTS; HIGHWAY MARKINGS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; TRAFFIC SIGNS;

HEADLAMP OBSERVER TARGET GEOMETRY; PRISMATIC RETROREFLECTORS; RETROREFLECTIVE TARGET VISIBILITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL CANDLEPOWER MATRICES; VISIBILITY MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0033343027     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1692-12     Document Type: Article

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