Roadways Lighting and Its Effect on Accidents

General Objective:
To know the basics of roadways lighting and safety, modern design of roadways lighting and poles & lighting design elements of different types of the road web.

Contents:

√ Purpose of roadways lighting, its advantages in transport

√ Basic principles: transportation and communication issues. Change in traffic and roadways efficiency and safety. Social and behavioral matters.

√ Natural fundamentals: importance of visibility, types of lighting and light reflection

√ Light measurement: basic definitions, measurement units, various mathematical relations, measurement of lighting sharpness on the road and its reflection on the road surface

√ General specifications: lighting condition and type of road, lighting arrangement, and roadways functional classification.

√ Technology of road lighting: modern systems of lighting, different types of lighting, lighting and road characteristics, lighting in public areas, minimum and maximum lighting.

√ Lighting in public areas and safety

√ Roadways lighting design: technical characteristics, lighting sharpness, elements of designing (projectors, poles…)

√ Tunnel lighting: different tunnels, basic definitions, relationship between traffic and lighting, long tunnels lighting, short tunnels lighting...

√ Traffic signs lighting; reasons, functional classification, types of signs