Traffic sign comprehensibility in an aging society: A Study of "photo-enforced traffic signal ahead" signage

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2096, 2009, Pages 81-88

  Kim, Sungyop ^a   Ulfarsson, Gudmundur F ^b   Anton, Karen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS; TRAFFIC SIGNS;

'CURRENT; AGING SOCIETIES; DRIVER AGE; LEARN+; MISSOURIS; OLDER DRIVERS; PAPER ANALYSIS; SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION; WARNING SIGNS; YOUNG DRIVER;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

EID: 76649121171     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2096-11     Document Type: Article

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