Educational interventions successfully reduce pedestrians' overestimates of their own nighttime visibility

Human Factors

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 170-182

  Tyrrell, Richard A ^a   Patton, Chad W ^a   Brooks, Johnell O ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; LIGHTING; PARABOLIC ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; VISIBILITY;

EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS; EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS; OVERESTIMATE; STATIONARY;

EDUCATION;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; NIGHT VISION; PEDESTRIAN; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VISIBILITY; WALKING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SOUTH CAROLINA; WALKING;

EID: 2642554826     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/hfes.46.1.170.30385     Document Type: Article

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