Sustainable Lighting Layout in Urban Areas: Maximizing Implicit Coverage and Minimizing Installation Cost

A key decision in the design of urban lighting is the location of the luminaries that are used to illuminate the specified region. The decision needs to account for coverage requirements identified in certain areas, based on safety considerations and nature of work activity, along with ensuring the...

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Main Authors: Ahmed W. A. Hammad, Ali Akbarnezhad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Built Environment
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbuil.2018.00042/full
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description A key decision in the design of urban lighting is the location of the luminaries that are used to illuminate the specified region. The decision needs to account for coverage requirements identified in certain areas, based on safety considerations and nature of work activity, along with ensuring the cost effectiveness of the installation pattern adopted. In this work, a novel approach is presented via a multi-objective mathematical optimization model that results in a sustainable layout of light poles in urban region. A maximal coverage objective, with implicit demand cover, is formulated as a measure of the social requirement in urban lighting, which models security and safety associated with night-time lighting of the urban region. At the same time, the economical aspect of the layout is considered via minimizing the installation cost of the lighting layout. A realistic case example is then solved using the ϵ-constraint method. A Pareto optimal front for the case considered is constructed and analyzed.
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spelling doaj.art-8a50c01a7f9e4ea08a3f6fb9021f58fb2022-12-21T19:00:16ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Built Environment2297-33622018-08-01410.3389/fbuil.2018.00042386653Sustainable Lighting Layout in Urban Areas: Maximizing Implicit Coverage and Minimizing Installation CostAhmed W. A. Hammad0Ali Akbarnezhad1Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaFaculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaA key decision in the design of urban lighting is the location of the luminaries that are used to illuminate the specified region. The decision needs to account for coverage requirements identified in certain areas, based on safety considerations and nature of work activity, along with ensuring the cost effectiveness of the installation pattern adopted. In this work, a novel approach is presented via a multi-objective mathematical optimization model that results in a sustainable layout of light poles in urban region. A maximal coverage objective, with implicit demand cover, is formulated as a measure of the social requirement in urban lighting, which models security and safety associated with night-time lighting of the urban region. At the same time, the economical aspect of the layout is considered via minimizing the installation cost of the lighting layout. A realistic case example is then solved using the ϵ-constraint method. A Pareto optimal front for the case considered is constructed and analyzed.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbuil.2018.00042/fullbinary integer programminglocation theorysustainable urban lightingmulti-objective optimizationurban lightingsustainable lighting layout
spellingShingle Ahmed W. A. Hammad
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Sustainable Lighting Layout in Urban Areas: Maximizing Implicit Coverage and Minimizing Installation Cost
Frontiers in Built Environment
binary integer programming
location theory
sustainable urban lighting
multi-objective optimization
urban lighting
sustainable lighting layout
title Sustainable Lighting Layout in Urban Areas: Maximizing Implicit Coverage and Minimizing Installation Cost
title_full Sustainable Lighting Layout in Urban Areas: Maximizing Implicit Coverage and Minimizing Installation Cost
title_fullStr Sustainable Lighting Layout in Urban Areas: Maximizing Implicit Coverage and Minimizing Installation Cost
title_full_unstemmed Sustainable Lighting Layout in Urban Areas: Maximizing Implicit Coverage and Minimizing Installation Cost
title_short Sustainable Lighting Layout in Urban Areas: Maximizing Implicit Coverage and Minimizing Installation Cost
title_sort sustainable lighting layout in urban areas maximizing implicit coverage and minimizing installation cost
topic binary integer programming
location theory
sustainable urban lighting
multi-objective optimization
urban lighting
sustainable lighting layout
url https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbuil.2018.00042/full
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