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DOI	10.3390/su12083133
	How Much Lighting is Required to Feel Safe When Walking Through the Streets at Night?
	Svechkina, Alina; Trop, Tamar; Portnov, Boris A.
通讯作者	Portnov, Boris A.
来源期刊	SUSTAINABILITY
EISSN	2071-1050
出版年	2020
卷号	12 期号:8
英文摘要	Public space lighting (PSL) is indispensable after the natural dark. However, little is known about how much PSL people actually need to feel sufficiently safe in different real-world urban settings. The present study attempts to answer this question by employing a novel real-time interactive approach, according to which, observers use a specially-designed mobile phone application to assess and report the perceived attributes of street lighting and the feeling of safety (FoS) it generates. To validate the proposed approach, a systematic survey was conducted in three cities in Israel-Tel Aviv-Yafo and Haifa, which lie on the Mediterranean coast, and Be'er Sheba, which lies inland. Additionally, instrumental PSL measurements were performed at the same locations. As the study reveals, the necessary level of illumination required by urban residents to feel safe differs by city and is significantly higher in Be'er Sheba, other factors held equal, in compare to Haifa and Tel Aviv-Yafo. This difference may be attributed to stronger daylight that the residents of the desert city of Be'er Sheba are accustomed to, and, therefore, may prefer stronger nighttime illumination. The difference could also be related to the relatively low socio-economic status and somewhat higher crime rates in the latter city. Findings also show a significant and positive association between FoS and instrumentally measured PSL levels, although this association exhibits diminishing returns. To the best of our knowledge, the present study is the first to use an interactive location- and time-based mobile phone technology, which can potentially provide more accurate and reliable assessments, compared to traditional pen and paper survey techniques.
英文关键词	Feeling of Safety (FoS) Public Space Lighting (PSL) interactive user-oriented approach urban areas
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Israel
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000535598700066
WOS关键词	RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT QUALITY ; ARTIFICIAL-LIGHT ; PERCEIVED SAFETY ; URBAN ; IMPACT ; IMPRESSIONS ; PERCEPTION ; EXPOSURE ; RISK
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/318952
作者单位	Univ Haifa, Dept Nat Resources & Environm Management, IL-3498838 Haifa, Israel
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Svechkina, Alina,Trop, Tamar,Portnov, Boris A.. How Much Lighting is Required to Feel Safe When Walking Through the Streets at Night?[J],2020,12(8).
APA	Svechkina, Alina,Trop, Tamar,&Portnov, Boris A..(2020).How Much Lighting is Required to Feel Safe When Walking Through the Streets at Night?.SUSTAINABILITY,12(8).
MLA	Svechkina, Alina,et al."How Much Lighting is Required to Feel Safe When Walking Through the Streets at Night?".SUSTAINABILITY 12.8(2020).