Increasing motorcycles attention and search conspicuity by using Alternating-Blinking Lights System (ABLS)

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 801-810

  Gershon, Pnina ^a   Shinar, David ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention conspicuity; Motorcycle conspicuity; Powered Two Wheeler (PTW); Search conspicuity

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ILLUMINATION; CAR DRIVER; CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; CONSPICUITY; DETECTABILITY; DETECTION RATES; DRIVING ENVIRONMENT; DYNAMIC TRAFFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXTS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INITIAL DISTANCE; POWERED TWO-WHEELER (PTW); URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VIDEO CLIPS; VISUAL SEARCH; VISUAL SIGNATURES;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; MOTORCYCLES; VIDEO CAMERAS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLOTHING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HELMET; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; MALE; MOTORCYCLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIDEORECORDING;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ATTENTION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLOTHING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; LIGHTING; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOTORCYCLES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84870289337     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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