A visiting US road lighting professional says road lighting design standards are slowing the evolution of new road lighting technologies and that has to change in the interests of saving lives on New Zealand roads.
A keynote speaker at the Road Lighting 2015 conference, Dr John Milton, the director of enterprise risk and safety management for the Washington State Department of Transportation, told conference delegates that road lighting professionals need to challenge long-standing presumptions about road lighting design.
Dr Milton says the energy, cost-efficiency, flexibility and greater visibility that LED road lighting delivers makes it a very beneficial technology, but says the performance standards to optimise the use of LED technology have not yet been researched and developed.