Tondo Blog
The Health Effects of Light Pollution
A growing body of scientific research suggests that light pollution can have lasting adverse effects on human health, and wildlife health, habitat, and migration.
Factors Affecting Perceived Safety in Railway Stations
Feeling safe in public transport is essential for mobility, and fear of crime can be a larger problem for the individual than crime itself.
Among the most important characteristics affecting passengers’ safety are lighting, surveillance, other persons’ behaviour, time of day, and one’s own gender.
Creating safe spaces for railway and public transit facilitates increased use, which has follow-on socio-economic benefits for cities.
Designing and Implementing Advanced and Efficient Roadway Lighting
This 2016 paper by Adam Sedziwy and Leszek Kotulski is an essential for street lighting designers and engineers. The authors propose methodologies that drive savings by LED retrofit projects, advanced (aka Smart) lighting control and design, and operational & management cost savings available from advanced networked lighting systems.
Reducing Crime with Street Lighting in New York City
We find evidence that communities that were assigned more lighting ex- perienced sizable reductions in crime. After accounting for potential spatial spillovers, we find that the provision of street lights led, at a minimum, to a 36 percent reduction in nighttime outdoor index crimes.