Nos Thèmes
Définir et mesurer
Les sources lumineuses
Les impacts
La Sécurité, criminalité
Définir et mesurer
Les sources lumineuses
Les impacts
La Sécurité, criminalité
To carry out, or procure, research into all factors affecting the
safe use of public roads.
ii To promote and encourage the safe use of public roads by all
classes of users through the circulation of advice, information
and knowledge gained from research.
iii To conceive, develop and implement programmes and courses
of action designed to improve road safety; these to include the
carrying out of projects or programmes intended to educate
children or others in the safe use of public roads.
The basis for future strategy is a broad programme of new work,
and the commitment to follow through on the findings of earlier
research. The Foundation's priority must be to move greater effort
into influencing road user behaviour and the application of findings
from completed research. It has been agreed that future planning
by the Foundation should concentrate on:
i clear strategies on how to influence road-user behaviour to
reduce risk, and thereby accidents and casualties, through
education and training, enforcement or deterrence; and
ii interactions between agencies concerned with highways, the
road environment and land-use, health, enforcement and
education, in order to target resources to greatest effect.
Research findings must be systematically pursued, and it is essential
to include the issues of:
i public acceptance of, and support for, road safety interventions;
ii the interface between road-users and new technology - their
adaptation to its use for information, enforcement and
deterrence; and
iii interactions between modes of transport on the roads -
pedestrians, cyclists, car drivers etc - and the necessary changes
in infrastructure for safety purposes.
aa_foundation_for_road_safety_-_tyres_road_surfaces_and_reducing_accidents_-_mai_2004_-_155pg.pdf
Can research findings be plausibly explained by means other than that given by the original researcher?
Previous talk spoke of some of the potential artefacts that may be seriously afflicting lighting research…For example HORS251
Strange ideas …. health care of old….
marchant_-_presentation_-_critically_appraising_the_alleged_benefits_of_lighting_on_public_safety_-_27pg.pdf
We accept the evidence that lit roads are,
generally, safer than unlit ones.23 We do
not want a reduction in the length of lit
roads but we do advocate the
replacement of wasteful, light polluting
old street and road lights with Full Cut Off
lighting (see page 11). The overall length
of motorway and A roads that are lit in
the open countryside should not continue
to grow. We recognise that there may be
a few stretches of such road where a
strong safety case can be made for an
extension of lighting, but we argue that
solar-powered LED cats’ eyes be
considered as an alternative.
safety_at_night_-_1pg.pdf
A total of 417 personal injury accidents (PIA) were recorded at the 94 lit
trunk road sites, corresponding to an annual mean rate of 0.11 PIA per
million vehicles. Of this total, 81 PIA occurred during the hours of
darkness corresponding to an annual mean night-time rate of 0.09 PIA per
million vehicles. There was therefore no significant statistical difference
between the average daytime and night-time accident rates for the lit trunk
road roundabouts.
Un total de 417 accidents corporels fut enregistré au niveau de 94 ronds-points
éclairés sur routes nationales, correspondant à un taux annuel de 0,11 accidents
corporels par million de véhicules. Sur ce total, 81 sont arrivés de nuit,
correspondant à un taux de 0,09 accidents corporels par million de véhicules. Il en
résulte que ces chiffres ne montrent pas de différence significative de ce taux, entre
le jour et la nuit, au niveau des ronds-points éclairés, sur grands axes.
the_lighting_journal_-_accidents_de_la_route_et_eclairage_public_-_2005_-_2pg.pdf