Risk compensation—the case of road lighting

T Assum, T Bjørnskau, S Fosser, F Sagberg - Accident Analysis & …, 1999 - Elsevier
The hypothesis of this article is that drivers will not adjust their behavior, ie drivers are not
expected to increase their speed, reduce their concentration or travel more when road …

[PDF][PDF] Review of the safety benefits and other effects of roadway lighting

MS Rea, JD Bullough, CR Fay, JA Brons… - … Research Board of …, 2009 - onlinepubs.trb.org
ABSTRACT As part of National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 5-
19, a number of studies on the effects of roadway lighting on safety, crime, perceptions of …

Evaluation of the effects of daytime running lights for passenger cars

D Pešić, A Trifunović, I Ivković, S Čičević… - … research part F: traffic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Research trying to determine the impact of the use of daytime running lights (DRL), in
vehicles, on road safety are lasting throughout the decades. The largest number of previous …

Effects of road lighting: An analysis based on Dutch accident statistics 1987–2006

PO Wanvik - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2009 - Elsevier
This study estimates the safety effect of road lighting on accidents in darkness on Dutch
roads, using data from an interactive database containing 763,000 injury accidents and 3.3 …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying the impact of road lighting on road safety—A New Zealand Study

M Jackett, W Frith - IATSS research, 2013 - Elsevier
It is well known from the literature that road lighting has significant safety benefits. The NZTA
Economic Evaluation Manual (EEM) quotes a 35% reduction in crashes as the effect of …

Effect of lighting on frequency and severity of road accidents

G Yannis, A Kondyli, N Mitzalis - Proceedings of the Institution …, 2013 - icevirtuallibrary.com
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of lighting conditions on the frequency
and severity of road accidents at both urban and rural roads in Greece. A total of 358 485 …

[PDF][PDF] Meta-analysis of evaluations of public lighting as accident countermeasure

R Elvik - Transportation Research Record, 1995 - onlinepubs.trb.org
A meta-analysis of 37 studies evaluating the safety effects of public lighting is reported. The
37 studies contain a total of 142 results. The studies included were reported from 1948 to …

The relationship between road lighting quality and accident frequency

PP Scott - 1980 - trid.trb.org
Many studies have related changes in accident frequency to the presence of street lighting,
and a few have examined its variation over a range of lighting quality, as measured by …

Application of propensity scores and potential outcomes to estimate effectiveness of traffic safety countermeasures: Exploratory analysis using intersection lighting …

L Sasidharan, ET Donnell - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2013 - Elsevier
More than 5.5 million police-reported traffic crashes occurred in the United States in 2009,
resulting in 33,808 fatalities and more than 2.2 million injuries. Significant funds are …

Night-time and daytime operating speed distribution in urban arterials

M Bassani, L Catani, C Cirillo, G Mutani - Transportation research part F …, 2016 - Elsevier
Operating speeds on roads are influenced by lighting conditions: indeed most of the driving
tasks are influenced by visual information. In terms of supporting evidence, there is a …