TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Evaluation and analysis of tunnel lighting service status based on driving safety
JO  - Traffic injury prevention
A1  - Wang, Xiaoxia
A1  - Wen, Rupeng
A1  - Cheng, Kun
A1  - Yang, Meng
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - OBJECTIVE: The service status of tunnel lighting has an important impact on driving safety. Existing research mainly discussed the impact of a single evaluation indicator of lighting service status on driving safety and paid less attention to the impact of multiple evaluation indicators on driving safety. <br><br>METHODS: In this research, field tests of tunnels in three speed scenarios and 52 service scenarios are completed. DIALux software was selected to simulate more intensive illuminance, which could be used to calculate U(0), U(1), q(c), and C. Using U(0), U(1), q(c), and C as explanatory variables, and applying the normalized visual recognition results as explained variables, ordinary least squares regression (OLS) was performed to calculate the influence weight of each explanatory variable on driving safety. <br><br>RESULTS: The results show that the four independent variables occupied different weights under different working conditions. However, on the whole, U(0) and U(1) occupied a greater weight. The weight of C lies between q(c) and U(0), and U(1) and q(c) occupied the smallest weight in all scenarios. Locally, U(0) was greater than U(1), with the exception when the illumination attenuation value was 70%. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The influence of the total uniformity of the road surface luminance and longitudinal uniformity of the road centerline luminance on driving safety was significantly greater than the influence of the contrast revealing coefficient and luminance contrast C on driving safety. When the luminous flux was attenuated to 70% or less and when the number of failed lamps was at least four, the lighting quality would be significantly reduced, which would substantially affect driving safety.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1538-9588
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2023.2204986
ID  - ref1
ER  -