Effects of dedicated stop-lamps on nighttime rear-end collisions

LEUKOS - Journal of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-165

  Luoma, Juha ^a,b   Sivak, Michael ^a   Flannagan, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accident; Brake lamp; Crash; Rear lamp configuration; Rear lighting function; Rear end collision; Stop lamp

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CRASHWORTHINESS; SAFETY FACTOR;

BRAKE LAMPS; REAR END COLLISION; REAR LAMP CONFIGURATION; REAR LIGHTING FUNCTION; STOP LAMPS;

ELECTRIC LAMPS;

EID: 33947628701     PISSN: 15502724     EISSN: 15502716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1582/LEUKOS.2006.03.02.005     Document Type: Article

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