Perspectives on urban lighting : pedestrian visual comfort and safety preferences

Wei, Lanlan (avtor), Bizjak, Grega (avtor), Svetina, Matija (avtor), Kobav, Matej Bernard (avtor)

This study investigates pedestrian preferences regarding outdoor public lighting, specifically examining their impact on the perception of visual comfort, safety and reassurance in different urban settings. Despite extensive research on lighting parameters and pedestrian safety perception in recent years, gaps remain in understanding how users perceive different lighting scenes in real nighttime environments. The laboratory study comprised 130 participants under 30 years old. Using real location data, we simulated four distinct urban lighting conditions using Dialux software and examined them in a dark laboratory setting. Participants viewed generated images of urban nighttime scenes of a well-known Ljubljana district and answered the questionnaire. The questions were about participants' walking habits in a nighttime environment and about their perception of safety and reassurance based on viewed images. All together nine different scenes were evaluated by participants. Our study employed various analytical approaches to examine the effects of height (low vs. high) of lighting poles and lighting uniformity (better vs. worse) on participants' perceptions of safety, visual comfort, reassurance and orientation ease. The results demonstrate a preference for lighting with good uniformity, particularly in areas with higher lamp posts, suggesting its vital role in enhancing visual comfort. These findings emphasize the significance of continuous lighting design in promoting pedestrian safety and visual comfort in urban environments.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: pedestrian environmental psychology, pedestrian's perception of safety, urban lighting, visual comfort, environmental psychology, urban environments, illumination, pedestrians, visual perception, safety, preferences
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FF - Filozofska fakulteta ; FE - Fakulteta za elektrotehniko
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2025
• Št. strani: Str. 1-5
• Številčenje: Vol. 20, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-171758
• UDK: 159.9:71:628.971.6
• ISSN pri članku: 1309-6915
• DOI: 10.14744/megaron.2025.84760
• COBISS.SI-ID: 247258371
• Datum objave v RUL: 01.09.2025

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Megaron
• Skrajšan naslov: Megaron
• Založnik: Yildiz teknik üniversitesi
• ISSN: 1309-6915
• COBISS.SI-ID: 527176729

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: Licenca Creative Commons, ki prepoveduje komercialno uporabo, vendar uporabniki ne rabijo upravljati materialnih avtorskih pravic na izpeljanih delih z enako licenco.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: okoljska psihologija, urbano okolje, razsvetljava, pešci, vidno zaznavanje, varnost, preference