Safety measures

摘要

Lux Mapping, a technology developed and used in New Zealand to measure and analyse street lighting levels, could fill a vital gap in the data linking lighting and road safety, according to a paper delivered at the recent Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference 2012.The technology's developer, Hamilton-based Odyssey Energy, carries out surveys at normal traffic speed using a vehicle-mounted, computerised system to gather lighting data along a route in real time. The data includes Geographic Information System (GIS) coordinates. The raw data can be fed into spreadsheets, presented as graphs, superimposed on Google Earth images or imported into the Road Assessment and Maintenance Management (RAMM) databases used in New Zealand and much of Australia.