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48 The goal of the project was to determine the impact of LED roadway lighting on driver sleep health and alertness. Five major findings were evident.
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Discussion 49 this study was not designed to test for the full dose-response of light on melatonin suppression for these polychromatic light sources, certain comparisons can be drawn to existing doseresponse curves on polychromatic light sources (Brainard et al., 2015)
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50 LED Roadway Lighting: Impact on Driver Sleep Health and Alertness SDLP because of the presence of roadway lighting. Future research in the area with larger sample sizes could result in a better understanding of this phenomenon.
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Discussion 51 The application of roadway lighting should be considered in terms of several aspects that affect road users and the built environment. These aspects include road safety, energy conservation, road user acceptance, impact on user health, sky glow and light trespass, and impact on the surrounding ecology.
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52 LED Roadway Lighting: Impact on Driver Sleep Health and Alertness Fifth, there was no traffic and no extraneous sources of lighting, such as light from parking lots of commercial establishments, on the Smart Road. These simplifications were used to isolate the effects of roadway lighting on melatonin suppression and alertness.
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