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Comprehensibility of traffic signs among urban drivers in Turkey
Date
2012-03-01
Author
Kirmizioglu, Erkut
Tüydeş Yaman, Hediye
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Traffic signs are commonly used traffic safety tools, mainly developed to provide crucial information in a short time to support safe drive; but the success depends on their comprehensibility by the drivers. Also, a sudden change in the traditionally used and accepted signs can cause significant safety problem, as in the case of cancellation of red oblique bars in 2004 as a part of the European Union Harmonization Process of Turkey.
Subject Keywords
Traffic safety
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Traffic signs
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Comprehension
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Survey analysis
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Vienna convention
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Familiarity
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37178
Journal
ACCIDENT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2011.11.014
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Department of Civil Engineering, Article