Visual demand of bilingual message signs displaying alternating text messages

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 65-74

  Anttila, Virpi ^a   Luoma, Juha ^a   Rämä, Pirkko ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bilingual signs; Variable message signs; Visual demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042229247     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-8478(00)00016-4     Document Type: Article

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