Fotios, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-2410-7641, Uttley, J. and Fox, S. (2019) A whole-year approach showing that ambient light level influences walking and cycling. Lighting Research & Technology, 51 (1). pp. 55-64. ISSN 1477-1535
Abstract
Many studies have used surveys to investigate the reactions to changes in lighting from people who walk or cycle. An alternative approach is to use objective data, specifically the number of pedestrians and cyclists present under different lighting conditions, which has been reported previously using a daylight savings transition approach. This article presents a different method for analysing the effect of ambient light conditions in which data from the whole year are examined, rather than only the two weeks either side of the biannual daylight savings clock changes. The results confirm that ambient light has a significant impact: for a given time of day, more people walk or cycle when it is daylight than after dark. While both methods use an odds ratio approach, which should account for environmental changes other than lighting, the results suggest the daylight savings method of analysis better isolates changes in weather from the effects of ambient light on travel choice than does the whole-year method.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC) EP/M02900X/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2017 16:40 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2019 10:54 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1477153517738306 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1477153517738306 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:124505 |