Table of Contents

Part I: Road Lighting.- Purpose and Benefits of Road Lighting.- Basic Lighting Quantities.- Visual Performance for Motorists.- Visual Comfort for Motorists.- Visual Performance, Comfort and Pleasantness for Pedestrians, Cyclists and Residents.- Mesopic Vision.- Age Effects.- Lighting Quality Parameters.- Standards and Recommendations.- Equipment: Lamps and Gear.- Equipment: Luminaires.- Equipment: Road Surfaces.- Design Aspects.- Calculations and Measurements.- Part II: Light Pollution.- Purpose of Light-Pollution Restriction.- Light-Pollution Parameters.- Standards and Recommendations.- Equipment and Design Aspects.- Part III: Tunnel Lighting.- Purpose and Benefits of Tunnel Lighting.- Visual Performance and Sense of Confidence.- Standards and Recommendations.- Equipment and Design Aspects.- Appendix A: Illuminance Formulas.- Appendix B: Visibility Formulas.- Appendix C: Calculations of Qo from R-tables.

About the Author

Prof. Wout van Bommel MSc worked for more than 35 years with Philips Lighting in different lighting application functions. He has carried out research into many different lighting subjects. His research work has been the basis for concepts now used in international standards for lighting.

From 2003-2007, he was President of the International Lighting Commission, CIE. From 1988-2008, he was the Dutch representative of the European Lighting Normalisation Committee CEN TC 169. He is currently a board member of the Dutch "Light & Health Research Foundation," SOLG.

In 2004, Wout van Bommel was appointed Consulting Professor at the Fudan University of Shanghai, and in 2008, External Examiner of the Master Course "Light and Lighting" at the University College of London (UCL, Bartlett Institute).

He has published more than 150 papers in national and international lighting journals in different languages. All over the world he has presented papers, has taught at universities and schools, and has given invited lectures at conferences.

After his retirement from Philips Lighting, he began advising lighting designers, researchers, companies, municipalities, and governmental bodies, as an independent Lighting Consultant.

He is currently Section Editor for the section titled "Lighting" for the Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology.