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Peer reviewedBrachacki, Gregory W. Z.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1995
This study, involving 10 adults with dyslexia and 11 controls, found that controls differentiated between real and false traffic signs better than subjects did and that there was a significant correlation between traffic sign recognition and driving experience for controls but not for subjects. Results are interpreted in terms of a deficit in…
Descriptors: Adults, Dyslexia, Incidental Learning, Learning Experience
Download full textGarber, Nicholas J.; Gadirau, Ravi – 1988
A study was conducted to investigate the traffic engineering factors that influence speed variance and to determine to what extent speed variance affects accident rates. Detailed analyses were carried out to relate speed variance with posted speed limit, design speeds, and other traffic variables. The major factor identified was the difference…
Descriptors: Motor Vehicles, Road Construction, Safety Education, Signs
Zegeer, Charles V. – 1975
A detailed study of warning signs with flashers in school zones was conducted by the Kentucky Department of Transportation to determine the signs' effectiveness in reducing the speeds of vehicles during times of pedestrian activity. Field investigations were conducted at all of the 120 flasher locations in Kentucky Highway Districts 6, 7, and 9.…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Evaluation, Safety Equipment
Griffin, Robert E.; Gibbs, William J. – 1993
There is a great reliance on symbolic messages in our society, but the success of these messages depends on how they are interpreted. The variability of subjects' interpretations of commonly used visual symbols was investigated by comparing the interpretations of a U.S. audience and a Jamaican audience. Responses of 27 executive master's in…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Griffith, Douglas; Actkinson, Tomme R. – 1978
The drivers in a battalion about to be deployed to Germany were taught the meanings of international road signs using one of the following techniques: Sign Only, in which the road signs were presented via a slide projector and the names of the slides provided orally by the instructor; Sign Elaboration, which was identical to the Sign Only…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Armed Forces, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis
Insurance Inst. for Highway Safety, Washington, DC. – 1978
Since 1969 the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety has concentrated on researching, demonstrating, and communicating to the public methods of reducing highway losses. The Institute has established a framework to classify the nature of each kind of loss (human, vehicle and equipment, and environment) in relation to the three phases of the crash…
Descriptors: Administrators, Bibliographies, Bicycling, Children
