Lighting for pedestrians

The aim of this meeting was to reach a consensus on the recommended design criteria when lighting for pedestrians in residential roads.

The key questions included:

• What should be the basis of design recommendations?

• Which metrics should be used in these recommendations?

• How many classes of lighting are required and how should they be discriminated?

• Do we have sufficient credible data?

To promote constructive discussion, attendees were carefully invited so that we could address a range of issues:

• Laboratory and field studies of pedestrian visual tasks: John Bullough, Maria Johansson

• Measuring reassurance: Antal Haans

• Being seen by drivers: Ron Gibbons

• Pedestrian conspicuity to drivers: Joanne Wood

• Pedestrian flows and RTCs: Jim Uttley

• Application / design criteria authorship: Naomi Miller, Wout van Bommel

• Light pollution: Annika Jägerbrand

• Broader issues of road lighting: Stephan Voelker

Schedule

Day one: We presented recent work on lighting for pedestrians – experimental results; strategies; evidence for national standards.

Day two: Discussion: can we define optimal lighting criteria based on current state of knowledge?

This was followed by a day for presentations by PhD students, supported by CIE-UK. PhD students investigating any issue associated with lighting were invited – colour, vision, glare, daylight.

Contact

Professor Steve Fotios

School of Architecture, the University of Sheffield, UK.

steve.fotios@sheffield.ac.uk