OPENBARE VERLICHTING:
 

Het boek "Road Lighting" (van Bommel en de Boer), gepubliceerd in 1980, is voor een hele generatie licht-professionals uit de hele wereld het referentieboek geweest op het gebied van openbare verlichting.

Met een additionele ervaring van bijna 35 jaar heeft Wout van Bommel nu een geheel nieuw boek over openbare verlichting geschreven:
Road Lighting, Fundamentals, Technology and Application.
Het is in 2015 bij Springer gepubliceerd.

This new book outlines the underlying principles on which modern road lighting is based, and provides the reader with knowledge of how these principles should be applied in practice.
It offers a completely fresh approach to the subject, reflecting how the technology of road lighting has progressed to keep up with the changes in lamp technology, especially in solid state light sources, and the increasing awareness of energy use and environmental issues.


Inhoudsopgave

The book is divided into three parts.
Part One describes lighting of open roads, with chapters dicsussing visual performance and comfort (including the effects of mesopic vision and age), and international standards and recommendations for road lighting.  Lighting equipment is introduced; specifically lamps and luminaires in terms of their practical properties and features, but also the road surface and its characteristics.  A chapter on Lighting Design makes the link between theory and practice, providing the reader with the knowledge needed for effective lighting design, including aspects relating to sustainability.  The final chapter of Part One deals with lighting calculation conventions and measurements.

Part Two is devoted to light pollution. The negative consequences of light pollution are described and tactics to restrict light pollution explained. Lighting criteria are defined that can be used by the lighting designer to guarantee installations stay within acceptable limits. International standards and recommendations on the restriction of light pollution are discussed.  
Part Three is devoted to tunnel lighting, with chapters discussing  visual performance in tunnel environments, lighting criteria, standards and recommendations, and concluding with a chapter on tunnel lighting equipment and design.

This book is a valuable resource for road lighting designers and engineers, students of lighting design and engineering, town planners, traffic engineers, environmental specialists, and lamp and luminaire developers and manufacturers.