A STUDY OF ROADWAY LIGHTING

THIS STUDY ENCOMPASSED MANY FACETS OF ROADWAY LIGHTING, AND WAS FOCUSED WITH VARYING DEGREES OF EMPHASIS ON THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT, DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPMENT, MAINTENANCE, RESEARCH, ECONOMICS, AND OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST IN THIS FIELD. INFORMATION COLLECTED AND REVIEWED WAS OBTAINED FROM NUMEROUS SOURCES AND BY VARIOUS METHODS, INCLUDING PUBLICATIONS, QUESTIONNAIRES, CORRESPONDENCE, ATTENDANCE AT SYMPOSIUMS, AND CONTACTS BY TELEPHONE AND IN PERSONAL VISITATIONS. WHILE NO NEW RESEARCH WAS UNDERTAKEN, FINDINGS, PAST AND CURRENT, ARE DISCUSSED BRIEFLY. SINCE LIGHTING STANDARDS ARE THE MOST COSTLY ITEMS USED IN ROADWAY LIGHTING SYSTEMS AND PLAY AN INDISPENSIBLE ROLE IN SUPPORTING THE LIGHT SOURCES, THIS STUDY GIVES PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THEIR DESIGN, FEATURES, PERFORMANCE, AND OTHER CHARACTERISTICS. THE INFORMATION PRESENTED IS A QUASI- CONDENSED REVIEW OF A NUMBER OF SEGMENTS AND AREAS RELATED TO THE CURRENT STATE-OF-THE-ART IN ROADWAY LIGHTING SYSTEM DESIGN AND INSTALLATION. /HSRI/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 121 Pp, FigS, TABS, PHOTS, REFS
• Corporate Authors:

  Southwest Research Institute

  6220 Culebra Road, P.O. Drawer 28510
  San Antonio, TX  United States  78228-0510
• Publication Date: 1970-1

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Light; State of the art studies; Street lighting; Support poles
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221508
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 24 2000 12:00AM