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Battenburg markings or Battenberg markings are a pattern of high-visibility markings used primarily on the sides of emergency service vehicles in several European countries, Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. The name comes from the similarity in appearance to the cross-section of a Battenberg cake. ==History== Battenburg markings were originally developed in the mid-1990s in the UK by the Police Scientific Development Branch (PSDB) (now the Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST)) at the request of the national motorway policing sub-committee of the Association of Chief Police Officers. They were first developed for the United Kingdom police forces to use on traffic patrol cars, although other private organisations and civil emergency services have since started to use the pattern on their vehicles. The brief was to create a livery for motorway and trunk road police vehicles which would maximise the visibility of the vehicles when stopped on scene, both in daylight, and under headlights from a minimum distance of , and which would distinctively mark them as police vehicles. The key research objectives included: * Enhance officer and public safety by reducing the likelihood of road accidents where conspicuity of the police vehicle is a factor * Be recognisable as a police vehicle up to a distance of in normal daylight * Assist in high visibility policing so as to reassure the public and enhance the potential deterrent benefits of proactive traffic patrol activity 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Battenburg markings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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