MEASUREMENT OF DIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE OF PAVEMENT SURFACES AND DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTER TECHNIQUES FOR CALCULATING LUMINANCE

A directional reflectance goniometer was developed and used to measure the directional reflectances of eleven nine-inch pavement core samples, five asphaltic concrete and six portland cement concrete. Because of the large amount of data involved, an electronic data processing program, known as HILITES, was developed to handle the collected data. The program is written for an IBM 360/75. It is a highly flexible program providing a relatively simple means of combining lamp/luminaire candlepower arrays with pavement directional reflectance data to calculate illumination, pavement luminance, and glare. Results of calculations are presented in the form of a printout of the highway grid and/or summary tables. /HRIS/

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Research Report on Project No. 87 of the Illuminating Engineering Research Institute.
• Corporate Authors:

  Illuminating Engineering Society

  120 Wall Street, 17th Floor
  New York, NY  United States  10005-4001
• Authors:
  • King, L Ellis
• Publication Date: 1976-1

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 118-126
• Serial:
  • Illuminating Engineering Society, Journal of
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Illuminating Engineering Society
  • ISSN: 0099-4480

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asphalt concrete; Computer programs; Glare; Information processing; Luminous intensity; Pavements; Portland cement concrete; Reflectivity; Street lighting
• Uncontrolled Terms: Reflectance
• Old TRIS Terms: Goniometers
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00129603
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 21 1976 12:00AM