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District of Columbia
S
TREETLIGHT
P
OLICYAND
D
ESIGN
G
UIDELINES
Final Report 
District Department of Transportation
2000 14
th
Street, NW, 7
th
Floor Washington, DC 20009March 2005
District Departmentof Transportation
d.
District Departmentof Transportation
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District of Columbia Streetlight Policy and Design Guidelines Final Report
T
ABLE OF
C
ONTENTS
A
CKNOWLEDGMENT
...............................................................................................................iiiE
XECUTIVE
S
UMMARY
.......................................................................................................ES-11. I
NTRODUCTION
....................................................................................................................12. B
ACKGROUND
I
NFORMATION
.............................................................................................3
2.1 Definitions.................................................................................................................. 32.1.1 Optics............................................................................................................. 32.1.2 Streetlight Hardware...................................................................................... 52.2 AASHTO Roadway Lighting Requirements............................................................. 72.3 Light Sources........................................................................................................... 122.4 Poles......................................................................................................................... 142.5 Photosensor.............................................................................................................. 152.6 Globes...................................................................................................................... 152.7 Lateral Distribution Patterns.................................................................................... 162.8 Pole Placement Configurations................................................................................ 172.9 Cutoff Fixtures......................................................................................................... 18
3. E
XISTING
DDOT P
RACTICE
.............................................................................................20
3.1 Poles......................................................................................................................... 203.2 Lamps....................................................................................................................... 223.3 Wattage.................................................................................................................... 223.4 Illumination Levels.................................................................................................. 233.5 Special Requirements............................................................................................... 23
4. I
LLUMINATION
S
TANDARDS
R 
ECOMMENDATIONS
...........................................................24
4.1 General Standards for Illumination Levels.............................................................. 244.2 Other Standards and Design Criteria....................................................................... 254.2.1 Uniformity Ratios........................................................................................ 254.2.2 Veiling Luminance Ratios........................................................................... 254.2.3 Vertical Light Distribution Patterns............................................................. 264.2.4 Lateral Light Distribution Patterns.............................................................. 264.2.5 Minimum Light Pole Spacing...................................................................... 264.3 Lighting Illumination of Special Areas.................................................................... 27
5. G
ENERAL
H
ARDWARE
R 
ECOMMENDATIONS
...................................................................28
5.1 Overview of Major Changes.................................................................................... 285.2 Miscellaneous Issues................................................................................................ 305.3 Factors Influencing the Hardware Selection............................................................ 305.3.1 Context......................................................................................................... 315.3.2 Historic significance.................................................................................... 315.3.3 Significance of street.................................................................................... 335.3.4 Location of electrical power line................................................................. 365.4 Exempt Locations.................................................................................................... 36
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5.5 Hardware Recommendations................................................................................... 375.6 Design Principles..................................................................................................... 465.7 Design Examples ..................................................................................................... 48
6. N
EXT
S
TEPS
.......................................................................................................................51A
PPENDIX
A: R 
ESEARCH
S
UMMARY
......................................................................................52
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