Airport Parking Garage Lighting Solutions

This report provides guidance to help airport industry practitioners select the most appropriate lighting technologies for their unique parking garage conditions. Airports provide singular challenges to the design and operation of parking garages in general and to their lighting in particular. Users are frequently unfamiliar with the garage and under time constraints; atypical activities often occur (e.g., rental car operations); activity often occurs at night; and airports are high-security areas. The guidebook’s introduction focuses on the unique needs of airport parking garage lighting. Next, the guidebook provides an overview of the current state of the art in lighting technologies, including high pressure sodium, ceramic metal halide, fluorescent, induction fluorescent lamps, light-emitting diodes, organic light-emitting diodes, and light emitting plasma/plasma lamps. The guidebook then evaluates these technologies relative to a set of lighting goals. Based on these goals, it offers recommendations for illuminance level, emergency lighting, luminance (reflected light), and uniformity based on the location and functional elements of the garage, including drive aisles, ramps, pedestrian walks, drop-off/ pickup areas, elevator lobbies, vehicular entrances/exits, and concession areas. The guidebook also provides building design considerations and addresses site planning, architecture, and light operation options. It concludes with guidance on weighing the benefits and costs of airport garage lighting options and provides examples for how the reader can identify and incorporate various considerations. The guidebook will be of interest to a wide range of airport practitioners, including landside planners, utilities managers, lighting specialists, operations and maintenance personnel, and customer service staff.

• Record URL:
  http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/172338.aspx
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309308441
• Authors:
  • Gibbons, Ronald B
  • Palmer, Matthew E
  • Connell, Caroline
  • Jahangiri, Arash
  • Lutkevich, Paul
  • Weaver, Jonathan
  • Berg, Jeffrey
  • Karlsson, Joakim
  • Slocum, Doug
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Glossary; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 76p
• Serial:
  • ACRP Report
  • Issue Number: 124
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 1935-9802
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport parking facilities; Benefit cost analysis; Lighting; Parking garages; State of the art; Structural design
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Design; Terminals and Facilities; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01561952
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309308441
• Report/Paper Numbers: Project 09-03
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 28 2015 2:11PM