Evaluating Street Lighting Quality in Residential Areas by Combining Remote Sensing Tools and a Survey on Pedestrians’ Perceptions of Safety and Visual Comfort

Remote Sensing

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Weili Jiao¹  Huichan Liu¹  Boris A. Portnov²  Tamar Trop²  Baogang Zhang³  Yue Liu⁴  Qingyuan Liu⁴  Ming Liu⁴  Yiwei Li⁴  Tong Luo⁴ 

[1] Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100094, China;

[2] Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa 3498838, Israel;

[3] Laboratory of Building Environment and New Energy Resources, Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China;

[4] School of Architecture and Fine Art, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China;

关键词: night light remote sensing;    light spectra;    public space lighting (PSL);    feeling of safety (FoS);    perceived lighting quality (PLQ);   

DOI  :  10.3390/rs14040826

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The perceived quality of street lighting influences pedestrians’ perceptions of safety and visual comfort, as well as outdoors activities at night. This study explores the association between street lighting attributes, such as illuminance and wavelength, and pedestrians’ feeling of safety (FoS) and perceived lighting quality (PLQ) in eight residential districts in Dalian, China. To achieve this goal, we combine remote sensing technology with ground investigation. The ground research includes physical measurements of lighting attributes, such as intensity, color temperature, and glare, as well as survey evaluations of pedestrians’ perceptions of safety and visual comfort. We also analyze the influence of several environmental factors, such as traffic volumes and vegetation, while accounting for personal characteristics of the observers, such as gender and age. Findings from the remote sensing reveal that Dalian’s residential districts differ substantially by their nighttime light emissions, with high concentration of strong red band (i.e., long wavelength) emissions occurring in Zhongshan and Jinzhou, and strong blue band (i.e., short wavelength) emissions found in central Zhongshan. Results from the ground surveys further indicate that a satisfactory level of FoS reaches at the illumination levels of 5–17 lx, and that people feel safer if nighttime light is warm and uniform. From a multiple regression analysis, it is also found that illuminance and uniformity are the main factors affecting PLQ under conditions of low or high illuminance, while glare and color temperature play a more significant role under high illuminance. In addition, a satisfactory level of PLQ is found at illuminance levels of 25–35 lx and light color temperature of 4000 K–5500 K.

【 授权许可】

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