The effect of vehicle lighting on pedestrian movement in well-lighted streets.

Author(s)
Jaoobs, G.D.
Year
Abstract

An experiment has been carried out to find how the type of lighting by an approaching vehicle affects the behaviour of pedestrians crossing well-lighted roads (away from crossings at night. Results were obtained by the analysis of cine film taken from a car using either sidelights or dipped head lights travelling as near as possible to 32 km/h (20 mile/h) in two-way streets in Central London.

Publication

Library number
A 2142 [electronic version only]
Source

Crowthorne, Road Research Laboratory, 1968, 16 p.; RRL Report ; LR 214

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