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An Approach to Tunnel Lighting Design


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Lighting requirement is different during day and night inside a tunnel. During nighttime, the tunnel has to be lit with same lighting level of the approach and exit road from the tunnel. During daytime, as a driver enters the relatively dark tunnel from a bright sunlit outside he is supposed to face adaptation problem as adaptation from high to low level of luminance doesn't take place instantaneously. To overcome this problem, the tunnel entrance has to be lit heavily compared to the part that is remotely inside the tunnel. The goal is to do a tunnel lighting design, for Sikanderpur Underpass which is 560 m long, which can facilitate proper adaptation and visually safe driving condition for a driver.

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Adaptation, Interior-Zone, Exit Zone, Threshold Zone, Transition Zone.
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  • CIE 88:2004: Guide for The Lighting of Road Tunnels and Underpasses, Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage.

  • Narisada, K. and Yoseoikawa, K., Tunnel entrance lighting- Effect of fixation point and other factors on the determination of requirements, Journal of Lighting Research and Technology, Vol. 6, No.1, pp.9-18, 1974. doi: 10.1177/096032717400600102.


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Authors

Kamalika Ghosh
School of Illumination Science, Engineering and Design, Jadavpur University, India
Aryama Roy
School of Illumination Science, Engineering and Design, Jadavpur University, India

Abstract


Lighting requirement is different during day and night inside a tunnel. During nighttime, the tunnel has to be lit with same lighting level of the approach and exit road from the tunnel. During daytime, as a driver enters the relatively dark tunnel from a bright sunlit outside he is supposed to face adaptation problem as adaptation from high to low level of luminance doesn't take place instantaneously. To overcome this problem, the tunnel entrance has to be lit heavily compared to the part that is remotely inside the tunnel. The goal is to do a tunnel lighting design, for Sikanderpur Underpass which is 560 m long, which can facilitate proper adaptation and visually safe driving condition for a driver.

Keywords


Adaptation, Interior-Zone, Exit Zone, Threshold Zone, Transition Zone.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22485/jaei%2F2016%2Fv86%2Fi3-4%2F130852