Roadway Lighting – Light and Health
Recorded On: 04/18/2019
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About this Course
The IES offers Educational Webinars throughout the year, purposefully spanning a broad range of topics and speaker expertise. This was a live webinar, now available as an archived webinar and CEU course.
Description: Results from recent research with a focus on the past issues raised by AMA. Discuss the balance of the safety benefits of lighting versus the environmental impacts, the DOE Smart Road light source impacts study and other research.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course learners will be able to...
1. Define "Health" as it relates to light and lighting in Roadway applications and analyze the balance of lighting for safety vs. environmental impacts of Roadway lighting.
2. Identify differences in three types of experiments used in Roadway Lighting research: Laboratory, Naturalistic, and Epidemiological.
3. Identify the role of color (CCT, CRI, Spectrum) in Roadway Lighting and recommendations.
4. Determine gaps in research, and describe future additional data needs for Roadway Lighting.
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Ron Gibbons
Director of the Center for Infrastructure Based Safety Systems
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
Ron Gibbons is the Director of the Center for Infrastructure Based Safety Systems (CIBSS) at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI). He is the Institute’s lead lighting research scientist. He is currently the PI on projects investigating the impact of outdoor lighting on human health, the Spectral Effects of new light sources on roadways, the visibility of police vehicles and is the subject matter lead for the FHWA office Safety IDIQ contract. Dr. Gibbons is also an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech. Gibbons is the author of over 80 published papers on roadway lighting, photometry, and target visibility. He is a past Director of Division 4 of the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) and a past president of the Illuminating Engineering Society.