• This article examines how different light settings influence pedestrian exit choice in a university building to understand the effectiveness of these light settings in a particular scenario. • This study introduces a new case study to pedestrian research by collecting real-world data on pedestrian entry and exit patterns at a building. • This study provides partial support for the hypotheses that pedestrians are more likely to choose exits that are brightly lit or highlighted with green illumination. • As a secondary finding, this article also found that pedestrians prefer to take the shortest path and tend to follow the majority of the crowd (at low to medium densities).
Beek et al. (Sat,) studied this question.