Examination of Street Lighting Practice in Gainesville

Abstract

City lightning for municipalities is an esoteric engineering discipline that is crucial to motorist and pedestrian comfort, security and safety. With the advent of the energy crisis in the seventies, city lighting has emerged nation-wide as a practical target for energy conservation effort, which unfortunately often lack definitive planning. In Gainesville, large differences exist between the needs demanded in areas with little or no lighting and areas that are over designed. These extreme lighting variations coupled with a limited corporate knowledge of the basic principles of City lighting throughout the City and State is indicative of a policy and planning vacuum in dealing with City lighting policy. Primarily, this project was envisioned as an opportunity to improve knowledge of lighting, whether as street, security, or aesthetic, gained from experts in the City of Gainesville, throughout the State of Florida and through research.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA216773

Entities

People

  • Christian Decker

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computers
  • Construction
  • Cost Analysis
  • Design Criteria
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Energy Conservation
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Geometry
  • High Pressure
  • Lamps
  • Life Cycle Costs
  • Life Cycles
  • Light Sources
  • Lighting Equipment
  • Maintenance
  • Task Forces

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.