Product Description
Intended Audience: Engineers, Designers, Manufacturers, Municipalities, End Users, DOTs, Architects, Utilities, Environmentalists, Regulatory Groups, Energy Groups, Rdwy Maint. Orgs, Electrical Contractors, General Public.
Intended Interest Categories: Specifier (US), Affected (UA), Public Interest (UP), Academic, Research (GAR), Government, Regulatory (GGR), General SME (GSME), Organizational (OM).
Description: This Recommended Practice is a compilation of lighting design techniques and criteria, all offered for quality roadway lighting solutions.
Page count: 573 pages
Publisher: Illuminating Engineering Society (2025)
SKU: ANSI/IES RP-8-25
ISBN: 978-0-87995-498-7
Chapters:
- 1.0 Introduction to Roadway Lighting
- 2.0 Vision and Fundamental Concepts
- 3.0 Calculations
- 4.0 Obtrusive Light
- 5.0 The Planning and Design Process
- 6.0 Lighting System Components
- 7.0 Standards and Codes
- 8.0 Computer Applications
- 9.0 Maintenance and Operations
- 10.0 Highways and Interchanges
- 11.0 Street Lighting
- 12.0 Intersections, Roundabouts, and Crosswalks
- 13.0 At-Grade Railway Crossings
- 14.0 Tunnel Lighting
- 15.0 Toll Plazas
- 16.0 Off-Roadway Facilities
- 17.0 Parking Lots and Parking Garages
- 18.0 Roadway Sign Lighting
- 19.0 Temporary and Work Zone Lighting
- Annex A – Street, Highway, Tunnel, and Parking Area Field Measurements
- Annex B – Outdoor Lighting Controls: Additional Information
- Annex C – Contrast Method for Determining Threshold Lighting
- Annex D – Calculation of Tunnel Wall Luminance Using BRDFs for Typical Tunnel Wall Materials
- Annex E – Evaluation of Lseq : Correct Use of a Camera
- Annex F – Conversion Factors, Acronyms and Symbols
- Annex G – Visibility-Based Analysis of Parking Facility Lighting
- Annex H – General Procedure for Calculating Maintained Illuminance in Parking Lots and Garages
- Annex I – Environmental Ratings for Enclosures
- Annex J – Roadway Lighting Operations and Maintenance Example
- Annex K – Alternative Lighting Criteria Selection Methodology
- Annex L – Designing Tunnel Lighting Control Systems
Illuminating Engineering Society. ANSI/IES RP-8-25, Recommended Practice: Lighting Roadway and Parking Facilities. New York: IES; 2025.