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Recommended Practice: Lighting Roadway and Parking Facilities

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ANSI/IES RP-8-25
Document Type: Recommended Practice (RP)

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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.