TY - JOUR
T1 - Field experiments to evaluate lighting performance in nighttime highway construction
AU - Hyari, Khalied
AU - El-Rayes, Khaled
N1 - Funding Information:
The financial support provided for this research project by the Illinois Transportation Research Center under grant number ITRC-02 VD-H1, and by the National Science Foundation under the NSF CAREER Award CMS-0238470 is gratefully acknowledged. The authors also wish to acknowledge the contributions of Professor Liang Liu from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor Lucio Soibelman from the University of Carnegie Mellon, and Professor Ralph Ellis from the University of Florida.
PY - 2006/6
Y1 - 2006/6
N2 - The utilisation of nighttime highway construction has increased in recent years in order to minimise daytime construction-related service disruptions and traffic congestion. In this type of nighttime construction, lighting arrangements need to be properly designed and implemented in order to enhance safety and productivity on site, and ensure full compliance with the required lighting specifications. A number of field experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of various lighting arrangements in three typical highway construction zones, namely: activity area, transition and termination areas and flagger stations. In each of these zones, a number of practical lighting arrangements were found to be capable of satisfying all the lighting design criteria required by various Departments of Transportation. The experimental results also confirm that the set-up of lighting equipment on site has a significant impact on lighting performance, and therefore lighting arrangements should be carefully designed and executed on nighttime highway construction projects.
AB - The utilisation of nighttime highway construction has increased in recent years in order to minimise daytime construction-related service disruptions and traffic congestion. In this type of nighttime construction, lighting arrangements need to be properly designed and implemented in order to enhance safety and productivity on site, and ensure full compliance with the required lighting specifications. A number of field experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of various lighting arrangements in three typical highway construction zones, namely: activity area, transition and termination areas and flagger stations. In each of these zones, a number of practical lighting arrangements were found to be capable of satisfying all the lighting design criteria required by various Departments of Transportation. The experimental results also confirm that the set-up of lighting equipment on site has a significant impact on lighting performance, and therefore lighting arrangements should be carefully designed and executed on nighttime highway construction projects.
KW - Computer models
KW - Highway construction
KW - Light
KW - Nighttime construction
KW - Workspace
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U2 - 10.1080/01446190600601669
DO - 10.1080/01446190600601669
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33747017273
VL - 24
SP - 591
EP - 601
JO - Construction Management and Economics
JF - Construction Management and Economics
SN - 0144-6193
IS - 6
ER -