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					POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS  
		
			
				
						  
		
			
				
						3rd Annual EMS Safety Summit PowerPoint Presentation 
				
					John Killeen, Denver, Colorado, 
						October 2010 (PDF 2.67Mb) 
					  
									
										Warning Lights, Parking and Scene Safety PowerPoint*  
									
										Faugh, J – Warning – 
									
										Large file (10Mb)  
									
										  
					
 
					  
						HEAVY VEHICLES – Contour markings  
						
							  
								
Effectivness of heavy vehicle conspicuity treatments under different weather conditions*   Hildebrand, D. Fullarton, P. – University of New Brunswick – 1997   
						
							Conspicuity markings requirements on heavy goods vehicles* 
							
								UK Freight Transport Association – Compliance guide 
								  The effectiveness of Retroreflective tape on Heavy Trailers Morgan, C – NHTSA, March 2001   
									Conspicuity of Heavy Goods Vehicles* 
									European Commission – December 2004 
									  
									FMCSA’s Conspicuity Requirements for Commercial Motor Vehicles 
									US Department of Transportation 
									  
									Understanding Trailer visibility and conspicuity devices 
									Messerschmidt, W – Technical White Paper 
								  
								UK Freight Transport Association – Compliance guide 
						UK Freight Transport Association – Compliance guide 
						  The effectiveness of Retroreflective tape on Heavy Trailers Morgan, C – NHTSA, March 2001   
							Conspicuity of Heavy Goods Vehicles* 
							European Commission – December 2004 
							  
						Visibility and judgement in car/truck night accidents*  
								  
						Ayres, TJ. Schmidt, RA. Steele, BD. Bayan, FP.  
						Document no longer available 
						
							  
									Improving worker safety through better visibility* 
								Berces, A. – 3M   
								Improving Road Safety by increasing truck visibility* 
								Berces, A. – 3M 
								
									  
								
									
										
											
												Heavy trucks, conspicuity treatment and the decline of collision risk in darkness 
											
												Sullivan, J. Flannagan M – UMTRI – September 2011 
						  
						  
 
 
				  
				THERMAL ROOF MARKINGS 
				  
				
				 Materials for IR and visible material identification from surveillance aircraft O’Keefe, E. – SPIE Newsroom, 17 April 2006   Thermal Roof Markings for Police vehicles* Brooke, A. – UK Home Office, Police Scientific Development Branch – 2004    Remote ID – QinetiQ     
 
 
								
									
										
											SNOWPLOUGHS (SNOWPLOWS) 
								
									
										
											  
								
									
										
											
												
													
Improving the ability of drivers to avoid collisions with snowploughs in fog and snow Yonas, A. Zimmerman, L. – July 2006 – PDF 
								
									
										
											  
						
							  
		
 
		  
		
			
				
					  
		
			GENERAL  
		    
			 
			Emergency Vehicle Accidents – Prevention, reconstruction and survey of State law, 2nd Edition 
			Solomon, S. and Hill, P. – Google Books  
			CLICK HERE 
		  
		  
			Conspicuity – 
			Police Association of Ontario magazine 
		Middell, R. – Winter 2004 
		
			Document no longer available 
		  
		 
		Tips for improving ambulance vehicle visibility 
		Careless, J. EMS World, March 2010  
		   
		
			
				Motor Vehicle Conspicuity – An assessment of the contribution of retroreflective and fluorescent materials* 
				Cook, S, Quigley, C. Clift, L. – October 1999 
			
				Conspicuity and retroreflective materials 
			
				Federal Highways Adminsitration Lecture 
			
				  
			
				Fluorescent coloured stimuli automatically attract visual attention: An eye movement study* 
			
				Schieber, F. Schlorholz, B. Willan, N.  
			  
			Use of fluorescent materials on traffic signs – guidelines (NZ) 
			Croft, P. – September 2001 
		On-Road investigations of fluorescent sign colors to improve consicuity  
		Anders, R. – August 2000 
		  
		  
		Tennessee Ad Hoc Committee on Ambulance Colors and Markings 
		EMS Board – April 2008 
		  
		Conspicuity and Readability 
		Signline Magazine, Issue 51, 2007 
		  
		A computational vision model-based method to address work zone conspicuity 
		Barton, J. Cohn, T. Misener, J. – University of California – Berkeley 
		  
		People vs Hudson (California)* 
		Stanford Law School 
		
			  
		
			Quantifying the subjective brightness of retroreflective material using magnitude estimations 
		
			Graving, A. Tyrrel, R.Balk, S. 
		
			  
				Visual detection of detectable warning materials by pedestrians with visual impairments* 
			Jenness, J. and Singer, J. – Federal Highway Administration 2006 
			  
			Workshop on Night-time visibility of Traffic Signs – Powerpoint PDF 
			Hanover – September 2002 
			  
			An Assessment of the Performance of retro-reflective Traffic Control Devices 
			  
			Retroreflective Traffic Control Devices: Future Road Safety Infrastructure in India 
			Mohna, S. & Duuta, N. – National Engineering Conference on Roads 
			  
			Retroreflective markings on Rail Cars 
			US DOT – Federal Railroads Administration 
			  
				
					Performance analysis of squad car lighting, retroreflective markings and paint treatments to improve safety at roadside traffic stops* 
				
					Fischer, J. Kzmarzick, K. Menon, A. Shankwitz, C. – May 2012 
				
					  Keeping officers safe on the road Pearsall, B. – NIJ Journal No 265   Advances in retroreflective technologies for road signage, vehicle visbility and road markings, delivering safer roads for all King, A. – 3M   Improving worker safety through better visibility* Berces, A. – 3M     |