Citation

Hillman M. Traffic Eng. Control 1989; 30(4): 191-193.

Affiliation

Policy Studies Institute

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Hemming Group)

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Abstract

In June 1988 the Policy Studies Institute published a report on a wide-ranging study of the option of making more daylight hours 'accessible' in the U.K. by transferring an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening by the simple expedient of putting the clock one hour ahead of GMT in the winter and two hours ahead in the summer. The report concluded that the benefits would far outweigh the costs. The study established that the transfer of the hour of daylight from the morning to the evening on every day of the year could have some adverse consequences. However, evidence of the link between the incidence of road accidents in daylight rather than darkness, and on well-lit rather than poorly-lit streets, suggests that a better matching of daylight and waking hours would lead to a reduction in the number of road accidents by offering greater opportunity to travel in daylight.

Language: en