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Highway Lighting Part 1

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The rate of highway accidents and facilities that occur during night driving is several times higher in terms of the vehicle kilometre, than that during day driving. One of the various causes of increased accident rate during driving. One of the various causes of increased accident rate during night may be attributed to poor night visibility. Highway lighting is particularly more important at intersections, bridge sites,level crossings and in places where there is restrictin to traffic movements. Lighting on rural roads has not yet become common, evidently due to the cost consideration and less number of pedestrians and other slow traffic using the facility at night. In urban roads where the density of population is also high, road lighting has other advantages like feeling of security and protection. Thus even through head lights of vehicles may be sufficient for safe night driving, still road lighting may be considered as an added facility to the road users.



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Highway and Transport Engineering
and this section is about Highway Lighting
(refference : Khanna, S.K., Justo, C.E.G., Highway Engineering, 3th edition, Nem Chand & Bros Roorkee (U.P.), 1976.)

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