Drivers' understanding of overhead freeway exit guide signs: Evaluation of alternatives with an advanced fixed-base driving simulator

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1803, 2002, Pages 102-109

  Dutta, Arup ^a   Carpenter, Rick ^a   Noyce, David A ^a   Duffy, Susan A ^a   Fisher, Donald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; EVALUATION; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; SIMULATORS; TRAFFIC SIGNS;

EXIT GUIDE SIGNS;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0036989684     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1803-14     Document Type: Article

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