Effects of experience with retroreflectors on recognition of nighttime pedestrians: Comparison of driver performance in Finland and Michigan

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-58

  Luoma, Juha ^a   Penttinen, Merja ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conspicuity; Cross cultural; Driver performance; Pedestrians

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037663144     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-8478(98)00006-0     Document Type: Article

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