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).

Relevant standards

  • ADR 46/00 — Australian Design Rule 46/00 – Headlamps
  • CIE 100-1992 — Fundamentals of the Visual Task of Night Driving
  • CIE 115:2010 — Lighting of Roads for Motor and Pedestrian Traffic, 2nd Edition
  • CIE 180:2007 — Road Transport Lighting for Developing Countries
  • CIE 191:2010 — Recommended System for Mesopic Photometry Based on Visual Performance
  • CIE 236:2019 — Lighting for Pedestrians: A Summary of Empirical Data
  • CIE 88:2004 — Guide for the Lighting of Road Tunnels and Underpasses, 2nd Edition
  • CIE TN 007:2017 — Interim Recommendation for Practical Application of the CIE System for Mesopic Photometry in Outdoor Lighting
  • CMVSS 108 — Lighting Systems and Reflective Devices

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Dataset 28 of 200 declare it

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

  1. The Role of Retinal Adaptation in Night Driving · 2005 · Plainis, Sotiris et al. · indexed
  2. Quantifying the Night Driver's Visual Environment · 1980 · Olsen, R. A. · archived
  3. Mesopic and glare driving performance in a driving simulator · 2025 · Kerwin, Thomas et al. · indexed
  4. Light Isn’t Just for Vision Anymore: Implications for Transportation Safety · 2007 · Figueiro, Mariana G. et al. · archived
  5. Measurement on Reaction Time of Visual Attention in Depth during Driving · 2013 · Xia, Ru Ting et al. · indexed
  6. STUDY OF TARGET VISIBILITY ON THE ROAD WITH DRIVING AS WORKLOAD · 2019 · CAO, DEWEI et al. · indexed
  7. Measuring the Quality of Drivers’ Night Vision · 1981 · Sturgis, Samuel P. et al. · indexed
  8. Effects of Age and Illumination on Night Driving: A Road Test · 2007 · Owens, D. Alfred et al. · indexed
  9. Driver Behavior as a Function of Ambient Light and Road Geometry · 2003 · Flannagan, Michael J et al. · indexed
  10. Reaction times as an index of visual conspicuity when driving at night · 2002 · Plainis, Sotiris et al. · indexed
  11. Visual motion perception and driving hazard visibility at night-time · 2025 · Kennon, Catherine et al. · indexed
  12. The impact of road lighting on road user alertness in the evening · 2023 · Alshdaifat, A. et al. · archived
  13. THE EFFECT OF WIDE-ANGLE HEADLIGHT ILLUMINATION ON DRIVER PERFORMANCE · 1979 · Merritt, John O. et al. · indexed
  14. Visibility Problems in Nighttime Driving · 1987 · Olson, Paul L. · indexed
  15. Time of day variations in driving performance · 1997 · Lenné, Michael G. et al. · indexed
  16. Nighttime Highway Construction Illumination [URTC Report] · 2014 · Bullough, John D. et al. · archived
  17. The Relation between and Driving Behavior Discomfort Glare · 1996 · Theeuwes, Jan et al. · archived
  18. HEADLIGHT FACTORS AND NIGHTTIME VISION · 1976 · Graf, Carl et al. · indexed
  19. Extended Driving Impairs Nocturnal Driving Performances · 2008 · Sagaspe, Patricia et al. · indexed
  20. The Relationship between Driver Vision and Accident Involvement · 1977 · Shinar, David · indexed
  21. Design Criteria for Adaptive Roadway Lighting · 2014 · Gibbons, Ronald B. et al. · archived
  22. INTERACTION BETWEEN FIXED AND VEHICULAR ILLUMINATION SYSTEMS · 1972 · Gallagher, V P et al. · indexed
  23. Traffic Signs and Real-World Driver Interaction · 2024 · Schnell, Thomas et al. · indexed
  24. Road traffic casualties: understanding the night-time death toll · 2006 · Plainis, Sotiris et al. · archived
  25. Adaptive Driving Beam - Visibility Improvement versus Glare · 2014 · Neumann, Rainer · indexed
  26. “Ease of Driving” Road Classification for Night-time Driving Conditions · 2016 · Pillai, Preeti J. et al. · indexed
  27. Driving time modulates accommodative response and intraocular pressure · 2016 · Vera, Jesús et al. · indexed
  28. Traffic Signal Brightness: An Examination of Nighttime Dimming · 1985 · Freedman, Mark et al. · archived
  29. Effectiveness of Road Lighting on Driver' Vision · 2012 · Jeong, Jun-Hwa et al. · indexed
  30. Driver Eye Scanning of Warning Signs on Rural Highways · 1981 · Zwahlen, Helmut T. · indexed
  31. Daytime and Nighttime Passing Maneuvers on a Two-Lane Rural Road in Spain · 2013 · Llorca, Carlos et al. · indexed
  32. Effect of Driver's Age on Nighttime Legibility of Highway Signs · 1981 · Sivak, Michael et al. · indexed
  33. High risk of near-crash driving events following night-shift work · 2015 · Lee, Michael L. et al. · indexed
  34. Driving in Snow: Effect of Headlamp Color at Mesopic and Photopic Light Levels · 2001 · Bullough, John D. et al. · indexed
  35. Driving Performance as a Function of Time on the Road · 1987 · Ranney, Thomas A. et al. · indexed
  36. Determinants of time headway adopted by truck drivers · 1981 · FULLER, RAYMOND G. C. · indexed
  37. Drivers’ steering reaction to a light stimulus on a dark road · 1981 · Summala, Heikki · indexed
  38. Dynamic measurement of traffic signluminance as perceived by a driver · 2011 · Gutierrez, JA et al. · indexed
  39. Development and validation of a vision and night driving questionnaire · 2016 · Kimlin, Janessa A et al. · indexed
  40. Assessing Driving Performance with Moderate Visual Field Loss · 2005 · Bowers, Alex et al. · indexed
  41. Driving in the future: Temporal visuomotor adaptation and generalization · 2001 · Cunningham, Douglas W. et al. · indexed
  42. Performance evaluation of a lane departure warning system · 2017 · Yang, Jiann-Shiou · indexed
  43. Speeding rod recovery improves temporal resolution in the retina · 2015 · Fortenbach, Christopher R. et al. · indexed
  44. Driver Topology Influence on LED Luminescence Response Dynamics · 2014 · Chaziachmetovas, A. · indexed
  45. Creeping in the night: What might ecologists be missing? · 2018 · Nichols, Carol Anne et al. · indexed
  46. Light-Induced Stress as a Primary Evolutionary Driver of Eye Origins · 2019 · Swafford, Andrew J. M. et al. · indexed
  47. Programmed driving waveforms for quick-response liquid powder displays · 2010 · Yang, Chang-Jing et al. · indexed
  48. A sub-mW Ultra-Low Power Low-Voltage LED Driver for a Patch Pulse Oximetry · 2023 · Mazandarani, Mahziar Serri et al. · indexed
  49. A triple-channel 90 V high-speed monolithic CRT driver circuit · 2002 · Mills, T.B. et al. · indexed
  50. High-Speed, Medium-Power, Solid-State Diode Driver · 1967 · Hilburn, J.L. et al. · indexed
  51. 250 MHz CCD driver · 1981 · Gradl, D.A. · indexed
  52. A 2.5Gbps Burst Mode Laser Diode Driver in 0.18-um CMOS Technology · 2007 · Chua, Chun Kiat et al. · indexed
  53. Patterns of nocturnal bird migration in southern Mexico · 2017 · Cabrera-Cruz, Sergio A. et al. · indexed
  54. Counterdiabatic driving of the quantum Ising model · 2014 · Damski, Bogdan · indexed