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The role of lighting in road traffic collisions
It has long been argued that road lighting can reduce road traffic collisions. 听However, all studies in this area tend to treat road traffic collisions as a homogenous collection of incidents and thus existing studies provide little information on how to improve road lighting to reduce collisions.听
The objective of this research is to use the UK database of traffic collisions (STATS19) to study collisions and understand the types of collision that can be attributed to poor lighting at night. 听This information can then be used to provide guidance on which sections of road would benefit from better lighting.