Statistical Analysis of the Crosswalk Lighting Design Correctness
The main goal of roadway lighting design is ensuring compliance with mandatory lighting standards and thus increasing safety for all road users. On the other hand, a design process being only a part of a road investment has to be completed in possibly a short time, due to business needs. The commonl...
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| description | The main goal of roadway lighting design is ensuring compliance with mandatory lighting standards and thus increasing safety for all road users. On the other hand, a design process being only a part of a road investment has to be completed in possibly a short time, due to business needs. The commonly used method for reconciling both requirements is using predefined lighting projects (templates) which are matched with similar, real-life lighting situations. This approach works well for a typical roadway lighting design but not necessarily for crosswalk illumination due to different specifics of underlying calculations (they focus on the contrast of a pedestrian against its background rather than roadway illumination). As one deals with pedestrian safety here, we decided to perform extensive tests to find out whether a standard compliant lighting project prepared for a given crosswalk can be safely applied (in terms of preserving standard compliance) to another similar crosswalk. To accomplish that, we investigated nearly 900 million situations obtained as modifications of the reference template. Results proved that even a 5% change of layout sizes (crosswalk width, lamp spacing, pole height etc.) makes 40% of obtained projects violate illumination requirements. The conclusion of this result is that the template-based design approach broadly used for roadway lighting cannot be applied for pedestrian crossings as it may cause serious safety issues. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6836dc4a47154dc7b8f5dfe3dde65c1f2023-11-23T14:50:41ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172022-09-011218895110.3390/app12188951Statistical Analysis of the Crosswalk Lighting Design CorrectnessAdam Sȩdziwy0Leszek Kotulski1Department of Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, PolandDepartment of Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, PolandThe main goal of roadway lighting design is ensuring compliance with mandatory lighting standards and thus increasing safety for all road users. On the other hand, a design process being only a part of a road investment has to be completed in possibly a short time, due to business needs. The commonly used method for reconciling both requirements is using predefined lighting projects (templates) which are matched with similar, real-life lighting situations. This approach works well for a typical roadway lighting design but not necessarily for crosswalk illumination due to different specifics of underlying calculations (they focus on the contrast of a pedestrian against its background rather than roadway illumination). As one deals with pedestrian safety here, we decided to perform extensive tests to find out whether a standard compliant lighting project prepared for a given crosswalk can be safely applied (in terms of preserving standard compliance) to another similar crosswalk. To accomplish that, we investigated nearly 900 million situations obtained as modifications of the reference template. Results proved that even a 5% change of layout sizes (crosswalk width, lamp spacing, pole height etc.) makes 40% of obtained projects violate illumination requirements. The conclusion of this result is that the template-based design approach broadly used for roadway lighting cannot be applied for pedestrian crossings as it may cause serious safety issues.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/18/8951roadway lightingpedestrian safetylighting designcomplexity |
| spellingShingle | Adam Sȩdziwy Leszek Kotulski Statistical Analysis of the Crosswalk Lighting Design Correctness Applied Sciences roadway lighting pedestrian safety lighting design complexity |
| title | Statistical Analysis of the Crosswalk Lighting Design Correctness |
| title_full | Statistical Analysis of the Crosswalk Lighting Design Correctness |
| title_fullStr | Statistical Analysis of the Crosswalk Lighting Design Correctness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Statistical Analysis of the Crosswalk Lighting Design Correctness |
| title_short | Statistical Analysis of the Crosswalk Lighting Design Correctness |
| title_sort | statistical analysis of the crosswalk lighting design correctness |
| topic | roadway lighting pedestrian safety lighting design complexity |
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