STREET-LIGHTING INSTALLATIONS

The purpose of this document is to provide practical safety advice about street lighting, based primarily on accident studies and the experience gained within UK highway authorities. The first part summarises the working group's findings from an analysis of accident studies by various authorities and from the questionnaire provided for this study. The report's main body gives further details of the separate studies on which the group's findings were based: (1) before-and-after studies of street lighting improvements on major sections of principal roads in Greater London; (2) street lighitng improvements at sites in London with dark accident problems; (3) street lighting improvement in Manchester; (4) analysis of a mass-action lighting programme in Hertfordshire; and (5) data aggregated from individual sites about remedial measures involving street lighting, Only factual information is provided, in a standard format that is largely self-explanatory. It is usually better to use a large sample of accidents and or/sites in studies of accident extent. Studies using appropriate statistical tests and control data are more reliable, especially for small samples. It is important to consider effects from traffic and pedestrian flows and site characteristics. The third part contains detailed information from answers to the questionnaire circulated to all highway authorities in Great Britain. (A)

• Corporate Authors:

  COUNTY SURVEYORS SOCIETY

  ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, COUNTY HALL
  MATLOCK, DERBYSHIRE  United Kingdom 
• Publication Date: 1990

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: unpaginated
• Serial:
  • REPORT 1/9
  • Publisher: COUNTY SURVEYORS SOCIETY

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Before and after studies; Highways; Improvements; Installation; Interviewing; Local government agencies; Prevention; Research projects; Safety; Significance (Statistics); Statistical sampling; Street lighting; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Guidance
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 1661: Accident prevention; 9148: Before and after study; 9104: Guidance; 2755: Highway; 9108: Improvement; 3840: Installation; 9147: Interview; 545: Lighting (street); 192: Local authority; 2748: Main road; 8557: Research project; 1665: Safety; 6553: Sample (stat); 6532: Significance (stat); 8119: United Kingdom; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00782679
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Feb 7 2000 12:00AM