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Road Lighting

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This is my second book on the subject of road lighting. The first, also titled “Road Lighting”, appeared in 1980 in the series “Philips Technical Library” published by Kluwer, with co-author Prof. J.B. de Boer. Since that time, the technology of road lighting has progressed to keep up with the changes in lamp and lighting technology, in traffic and automobile technology, and especially in the thinking about energy and the environment. The introduction of solid-state light sources (LEDs) has provided the possibility to design innovative, truly-sustainable lighting installations that are adaptable to changing circumstances such as traffic density and weather conditions. To avoid pitfalls when designing such installations, a detailed knowledge of the typical characteristics of the many different light sources, and especially also of all the aspects determining the final quality of road lighting, is essential. Completely-new fundamental research on vision and new application research on visual performance and comfort, conducted at many different research institutions at many different places all over the world, is now available as a basis for the specification and the design of effective, energy-friendly and sustainable road-lighting installations.
The purpose of this present book, which represents a completely-fresh approach to the subject, is to outline the underlying principles on which modern road lighting is based and to leave the reader with an understanding of the background to the subject and a knowledge of how these principles should be applied in practice.
The book is divided into three parts. Part One discusses the lighting of open roads for motorised traffic as well as for cyclists, pedestrians and residents. The first chapters deal with the purpose of road lighting, visual performance, including the effects of mesopic vision and of the aging eye, and visual comfort. Traffic safety, personal security and pleasantness are the main issues here. Following chapters describe the relevant lighting criteria for good and efficient road lighting and show and discuss the international, European and North American standards and recommendations for road lighting. Next, lamps and luminaires are reviewed in terms of their practical properties and features, the intention being to facilitate a proper selection of this equipment for the various application fields.

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Road Lighting

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Publisher

USA : Springer Cham Heidelberg., 2015

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1-343

Language

English

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978-3-319-11465-1

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NONE

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1st Edtion

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Information Technology

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