This article covers types, design, installation, maintenance, selection tips, standards, and emerging smart features. Ready to Upgrade Your Street Lighting System? When you walk along a bright street at night, you might not notice the small box at the base of each pole — the street light junction. Street Lighting Design Definition: Street lighting design ensures safe travel on roads by providing sufficient lighting to see essential objects. Importance of Street Lighting: Proper street lighting reduces accidents, discourages crime, and creates a secure environment. Review turn-around time frames. Construction shop drawings for material cut sheets. Coordination with Electrical Inspection Unit (“EIU”). Submittal of Lighting. standards: STL-1, A-STL-1, STL-2, STL-9B and STL-21. A 2' tolerance was included for the installation height of the lu naire with respect to the final level. The general purpose of roadway lighting is to provide improved visibility for the various users of the roadways and associated facilities. “Users” refer to vehicle operators (automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles, bicycles), pedestrians and other citizens such as merchants and shoppers.
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