dark adaptation mesopic

Low-light visual function and the transition between daylight and night vision: dark adaptation time course, rod-cone shift, mesopic and scotopic vision, and how night driving performance depends on the eye's adaptation state and ambient luminance level. Concerns the driver's adaptation to low illumination, distinct from the static contrast-detection function (contrast_sensitivity) and from sign reading (sign_visibility_legibility).

68 paper(s) · ranked by relevance to this topic

1. The Role of Retinal Adaptation in Night Driving ↗ · 2005 · Plainis, Sotiris et al. · indexed
2. Target detection and driving behaviour measurements in a driving simulator at mesopic light levels ↗ · 2006 · Alferdinck, Johan W. A. M. · indexed
3. The Twilight Envelope: A User-Centered Approach to Describing Roadway Illumination at Night ↗ · 2001 · Andre, Jeffrey et al. · indexed
4. Quantifying the Night Driver's Visual Environment · 1980 · Olsen, R. A. · archived
5. Light Isn’t Just for Vision Anymore: Implications for Transportation Safety (Part II) · 2009 · Figueiro, Mariana G. et al. · archived
6. Light Isn’t Just for Vision Anymore: Implications for Transportation Safety · 2007 · Figueiro, Mariana G. et al. · archived
7. Evaluation of the Impact of Spectral Power Distribution on Driver Performance · 2015 · Gibbons, Ronald B. et al. · archived
8. The Effect of Differences in Day and Night Lighting Distributions on Drivers' Speed Perception ↗ · 2016 · Kim, Jonathan et al. · indexed
9. Road traffic casualties: understanding the night-time death toll · 2006 · Plainis, Sotiris et al. · archived
10. Effects of daylight and darkness at daytime versus nighttime on driver sleepiness: A driving simulator study · 2024 · Meyerson, Amanda et al. · archived
11. Effects of Age and Illumination on Night Driving: A Road Test ↗ · 2007 · Owens, D. Alfred et al. · indexed
12. Review of Driver Behavior Characteristics and Hazard Perception Enhancement in Low-Illumination Environments ↗ · 2025 · Feng, Pengfei et al. · indexed
13. How eye movement and driving performance vary before, during, and after entering a long expressway tunnel: considering the differences of novice and experienced drivers under daytime and nighttime conditions · 2016 · Wang, Yonggang et al. · archived
14. Reaction times as an index of visual conspicuity when driving at night ↗ · 2002 · Plainis, Sotiris et al. · indexed
15. Analysis of the impact of nighttime driving to drivers’ behavior in rural roads through a driving simulator experiment · 2020 · Pavlou, Dimosthenis et al. · archived
16. The Long Road Home: Driving Performance and Ocular Measurements of Drowsiness Following Night Shift-Work · 2013 · Horrey, William J. et al. · archived
17. Visibility Problems in Nighttime Driving ↗ · 1987 · Olson, Paul L. · indexed
18. The impact of road lighting on road user alertness in the evening · 2023 · Alshdaifat, A. et al. · archived
19. Nighttime Highway Construction Illumination [URTC Report] · 2014 · Bullough, John D. et al. · archived
20. The Effects of Non-Driving-Related Task Engagement on Automated Driving Takeover Performance During the Nighttime ↗ · 2022 · Liang, Nade et al. · indexed
21. The effect of daylight versus darkness on driver sleepiness: a driving simulator study ↗ · 2018 · Ahlström, Christer et al. · indexed
22. The Relation between and Driving Behavior Discomfort Glare · 1996 · Theeuwes, Jan et al. · archived
23. The effect of cognitive load on Detection-Response Task (DRT) performance during day- and night-time driving: A driving simulator study · 2023 · Öztürk, İbrahim et al. · archived
24. The Relationship between Driver Vision and Accident Involvement ↗ · 1977 · Shinar, David · indexed
25. Design Criteria for Adaptive Roadway Lighting · 2014 · Gibbons, Ronald B. et al. · archived
26. Prototype mobile luminance measurement system and level of service for evaluating rural high-speed nighttime delineation. · 2013 · Miles, Jeffrey D. et al. · archived
27. Designing transparency for automated driving: Effects of ambient light cues and explanations on driver performance · 2025 · Huang, Jingyu et al. · archived
28. Examining the impact of different LED road stud layouts on driving performance and gaze behaviour at night-time ↗ · 2024 · Portera, Alberto et al. · indexed
29. Innovative, energy-efficient lighting for New York state roadways : opportunities for incorporating mesopic visibility considerations into roadway lighting practice · 2008 · Bullough, John D. et al. · archived
30. Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Glare from following Vehicles on Target Detection in Driving Simulator ↗ · 1996 · Ranney, Thomas A. et al. · indexed
31. Improving the effectiveness of nighttime temporary traffic control warning devices, volume 2 : evaluation of nighttime mobile warning lights. · 2013 · Steele, Douglas A. et al. · archived
32. Effects of Environmental Lighting Conditions on Operating Speeds on Urban Arterials ↗ · 2012 · Bassani, Marco et al. · indexed
33. Traffic Signal Brightness: An Examination of Nighttime Dimming · 1985 · Freedman, Mark et al. · archived
34. Blue-Enriched White Light Enhances Physiological Arousal But Not Behavioral Performance during Simulated Driving at Early Night ↗ · 2017 · Rodríguez-Morilla, Beatriz et al. · indexed
35. In-Car Nocturnal Blue Light Exposure Improves Motorway Driving: A Randomized Controlled Trial · 2012 · Taillard, Jacques et al. · archived
36. Effect of Low Blood-Alcohol Concentrations in Simulated Day and Night Driving ↗ · 1963 · Mortimer, Rudolf G. · indexed
37. Daytime and Nighttime Passing Maneuvers on a Two-Lane Rural Road in Spain ↗ · 2013 · Llorca, Carlos et al. · indexed
38. Analysis of Nighttime Driver Behavior and Pavement Marking Effects Using Fuzzy Inference System ↗ · 2007 · Lee, Dongmin et al. · indexed
39. The Distribution of Visibility Levels at Target Detection in a Modified Adrian/CIE Visibility Model ↗ · 2009 · Green, Marc · indexed
40. Development of a Model to Calculate Roadway Luminance Induced by Fixed Roadway Lighting ↗ · 2006 · Aktan, Fuat et al. · indexed
41. Research on Visual Turbulence and Driving Safety of Freeway Tunnel Entrance and Exit ↗ · 2007 · Xue-bin, Guo · indexed
42. Driving safety of low-position lighting in highway tunnels based on visual performance ↗ · 2025 · Ren, Rui et al. · indexed
43. The influence of LED road stud color on driver behavior and perception along horizontal curves at nighttime · 2023 · Portera, Alberto et al. · archived
44. Driver Drowsiness Warning System Using Visual Information for Both Diurnal and Nocturnal Illumination Conditions · 2010 · Flores, MarcoJavier et al. · archived
45. Connected vehicle applications for adaptive overhead lighting (on-demand lighting) : final research report. · 2016 · Gibbons, Ronald B et al. · archived
46. High risk of near-crash driving events following night-shift work ↗ · 2015 · Lee, Michael L. et al. · indexed
47. A Study on the Impact of Ambient Light on Driver Fatigue Based on Eye-Tracking Data ↗ · 2025 · Xu, ChangLong et al. · indexed
48. The Immediate Effects of Glare and Electrochromic Glare-Reducing Mirrors in Simulated Truck Driving ↗ · 2000 · Ranney, Thomas A. et al. · indexed
49. Driving Performance as a Function of Time on the Road ↗ · 1987 · Ranney, Thomas A. et al. · indexed
50. Lane markings in night driving: a review of past research and of the present situation ↗ · 1998 · Rumar, K et al. · indexed
51. A method to enhance drivers' hazard perception at night based on KAP theory ↗ · 2024 · Zhou, Bin et al. · indexed
52. Web-Based Training for FHWA Roadway Lighting Workshop Module 1: Roadway Lighting Design Overview · 2018 · Frering, Daniel C. et al. · archived
53. Analysis of Nighttime Vehicular Collisions and the Application of Human Factors: An Integrated Approach ↗ · 2014 · Sprague, James K. et al. · indexed
54. Pedestrian alertness during the evening is not affected by lighting conditions typically used for road lighting · 2026 · Alshdaifat, A et al. · archived
55. Visual Impairment— Driving-Related Fact Sheet For Medical Professionals · 2023 · NHTSA · archived
56. The Effect of Adverse Visibility on Driver Steering Performance in an Automobile Simulator ↗ · 1977 · Allen, R. Wade et al. · indexed
57. Study on Drivers’ Visual Load Features in Lighting Environments of Interior Zones of Extra-Long Tunnels over 10 km ↗ · 2022 · Zhou, Yuantao et al. · indexed
58. Driving simulator performance worsens after the Spring transition to Daylight Saving Time ↗ · 2022 · Orsini, Federico et al. · indexed
59. Quantitative indicators of street lighting with mood, fatigue, mental workload and sleepiness in car drivers ↗ · 2023 · Madvari, Rohollah Fallah et al. · indexed
60. Driving under low-contrast visibility conditions in Parkinson disease · 2009 · Uc, E. Y. et al. · archived
61. Development of Automated Roadway Lighting Diagnosis Tools for Nighttime Traffic Safety Improvement, Phase II · 2022 · Wang, Zhenyu et al. · archived
62. A survey of day-night illumination domain translation for outdoor vision: Methods, datasets, and evaluation protocols · 2026 · Alam, Md Shadab et al. · archived
63. Driving in the future: Temporal visuomotor adaptation and generalization ↗ · 2001 · Cunningham, Douglas W. et al. · indexed
64. BLUE LIGHT Exposure Reduces Objective Measures of Sleepiness during Prolonged Nighttime Performance Testing ↗ · 2009 · Jo Phipps‐Nelson et al. · indexed
65. Influence of Seasonal and Chronobiological Factors on Driver Behavior and Traffic Accident Risk: A Scoping Review · 2026 · Assis, Eber Pinheiro et al. · archived
66. Polarization-Guided Deep Fusion for Real-Time Enhancement of Day–Night Tunnel Traffic Scenes: Dataset, Algorithm, and Network ↗ · 2025 · Rao, Renhao et al. · indexed
67. SHIFT: A Synthetic Driving Dataset for Continuous Multi-Task Domain Adaptation ↗ · 2022 · Sun, Tao et al. · indexed
68. Enhanced driving assistance: automated day and night vehicle detection system utilizing convolutional neural networks · 2024 · Zaarane, Abdelmoghit et al. · archived