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On the impact of safety requirements, energy prices and investment costs in street lighting refurbishment design
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier Ltd, 2018.
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Abstract
- Street lighting is an indispensable feature for the night landscape of cities. It is important for road safety, users visual comfort, crime prevention and to augment the perceived personal safety. Realize and maintain an adequate street lighting service is very expensive for municipalities with significant impact on their budgets. For this reason, special attention should be paid to the design of new street lighting systems and to the refurbishment of existing ones, since many of them are inadequate. In light of this it is very important to implement street lighting designs that fulfil lighting requirements avoiding energy waste and light pollution and, at the same time, result economically sustainable for municipalities. In this paper, an original step by step methodology for the lighting, energy and economic analysis of street lighting refurbishment designs has been introduced and explained in detail. The methodology is suitable for use in cities of different sizes. As an applicative example, the methodology has been tested in the town of Pontedera (Italy) and the results are discussed, also providing a sensitivity analysis of the economic feasibility with respect to the variations of electricity prices and investment costs.
- Subjects :
- Architectural engineering
Lighting refurbishment design
020209 energy
media_common.quotation_subject
Energy (esotericism)
Light pollution
02 engineering and technology
emission reduction
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Crime prevention
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Economic analysis
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
CO2 emission reduction
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Civil and Structural Engineering
media_common
business.industry
Lighting design economic feasibility
Mechanical Engineering
Building and Construction
Investment (macroeconomics)
Pollution
CO
General Energy
Energy efficiency
Street lighting
Lighting simulation
Service (economics)
Electricity
business
Efficient energy use
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....080509db8591a9ea0833f8ae44a8346e