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Railroad Signal Color and Orientation: Effects of Color Blindness and Criteria for Color Vision Field Tests

Document Series:
Technical Reports
Author:
  • Federal Railroad Administration
Report Number
DOT/FRA/ORD-15/03
Office
RDI-24
Subject:
Human Factors
Keywords:
Railroad Signals; Signal Color; Signal Orientation; Medical Standards for Color Vision for Locomotive Engineers and Conductors; Color Vision; Color Vision Field Tests; Pseeudoisochromatic Plate Tests; Human Error; Signal Detection Theory
Document
TR Signal Color and Position Draft_final.pdf (375.27 KB)

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Last updated: Friday, March 20, 2015