Verification of Night Road Safety Inspection by Luminance Analysis

This article focuses on road safety in low visibility. Research is dedicated to the method of performing night road safety inspections and to comparison of its effectiveness and to the achieved outputs with measured data by the luminance analysis. The main objective of this study is to verify whether inadequate lighting of roadways can be identified solely through subjective visual perception. Both methods were compared in three test measurements in selected municipalities in the Czech Republic with different road lighting designs. Measured data from the luminance analyser were compared with technical standards defining the class of road lighting and subsequently compared with recorded traffic safety defects. The results confirm that it is possible to assess the lighting conditions of sites based on subjective perception of the night traffic area and can be considered valid. The final output also included a new graphical method of data interpretation in the form of implementation of the luminance analysis into cadastral maps.