Road lighting quality, energy efficiency, and mesopic design - LED street lighting case study

LEUKOS - Journal of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-24

  Ylinen, Anne Mari ^a   Tähkämö, Leena ^a   Puolakka, Marjukka ^a   Halonen, Liisa ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Mesopic dimensioning; Street lighting; Street lighting cost analysis; Threshold increment

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION PARAMETERS; LIFECYCLE COSTS; LIGHTING CASE STUDY; LUMINANCE MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MESOPIC; ROAD LIGHTING; THRESHOLD INCREMENT;

COST ACCOUNTING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GLARE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MEASUREMENTS; ROADS AND STREETS; STREET LIGHTING;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84855524975     PISSN: 15502724     EISSN: 15502716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1582/LEUKOS.2011.08.01.001     Document Type: Article

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