Abstract The tunnel entrance section is where the visual environment changes abruptly and influences the driver’s judgment of the traffic situation in front. The lighting design of tunnel entrance sections currently usually takes the same brightness standards at the entrance and the entrance section. It makes drivers may not find the obstacles at a distance from the entrance, which is extremely detrimental to traffic safety. In this paper, a reasonable obstacle-recognition experiment under driving situation is designed to study the influence of visual environment (mainly the lighting environment) on visual adaptability in the entrance section of the tunnels and analyze the relationship between the visual stimulation caused by the sharp change of luminance and drivers’ recognition ability of obstacles. The analysis of the obstacle-recognition experiment results provides basis for further study on improvement of visual environment of tunnel sections, and is of great significance to improving traffic safety of tunnels.
Research on Drivers’ Recognition Ability of Obstacles Under Lighting Environment of Tunnel Entrance Sections
2016-07-07
13 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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