Sustainable roadway lighting seminar.

Details

• Creators:
  Bullough, John D. ; Radetsky, Leora C.
• Corporate Creators:
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Lighting Research Center
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Sustainable development
  • Street lighting
  • Light emitting diodes
  • Visibility
  • Benefit cost analysis
  • Education and training
  • Luminance
  • Energy conservation
  • Technological innovations
  • Workshops
• Publication/ Report Number:
  C-13-05
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  New York
• Corporate Publisher:
  New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ; New York (State). Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  The objective of this project was to develop and conduct a half-day educational seminar on sustainable ; roadway lighting at three locations within New York State: Rochester, New York City, and Albany. ; Primary attendees were engineers from the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), and ; individuals from local municipalities, electric utilities and engineering firms also attended. Topics covered ; in the seminar included: roadway lighting basics, roadway lighting technologies, visibility and safety, ; economics and benefit/cost analyses, and new approaches to roadway lighting including ecoluminance, ; pedestrian crosswalk lighting, mesopic vision and brightness appearance. The seminar was received ; favorably by participants at each location. The present report summarizes the educational material ; presented in the seminar for use by engineers at NYSDOT and other organizations interested in energy-efficient roadway lighting.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  30904
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28044/dot_28044_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.88 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8e01a0ca955b245d5679aa8841b379007d02ba18fb5ddae7ceb587500a81c343