Comment on empirical evidence for the design of public lighting. (July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fotios, Steve
• Is Part Of: Safety science. Volume 86(2016)
• Page Start: 88
• Page End: 91
• Publication Date: 2016-07
• Subjects: Public lighting -- Perceived safety -- Empirical evidence; Industrial accidents -- Periodicals; Accident Prevention -- Periodicals; Safety -- Periodicals; Travail -- Accidents -- Périodiques; 363.11
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2016.02.020
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0925-7535

Abstract

Abstract: A recent article (Peña-García et al., 2015) presented conclusions regarding the benefits of road lighting for pedestrians. Here it is demonstrated that those conclusions were drawn from incomplete evidence, in one case because the experimental designs leads only to a trivial solution and in a second case because of an incomplete search of the literature.