Effective Roadway Lighting

Why Do We Install Roadway Lighting?

• Safety
• Security
• Cost/benefit considerations
• When should we light? – Warrants

Designing “In Scale”

• Lighting is a geometry problem
• Rules of Thumb for Selecting Mounting Height of Lighting
• Design “in scale” with the street

Review of Lighting Fundamentals

• Roadway lighting units of measure
• Photometric reports
• Reflection and refraction
• Visibility 

Light Sources for Roadway Lighting 

• High Intensity Discharge lamps
• LED lighting
• Induction Lighting
• Color Rendering Index (CRI)
• Correlated Color Temperature (CCT)
• Scotopic/Photopic ratio (S/P)

Luminaire Selection

• Luminaire types
• Reflectors and refractors
• Roadway distribution types
• Cutoff classifications
• Backlight, Uplight, and Glare (BUG) ratings
• Ingress Protection (IP) ratings
• Maintenance considerations

Evaluating Street Lighting for Energy Efficiency

• Energy Analysis Approaches
• Comparing LED & HID Lighting Systems
• Retrofitting Existing Systems
• Examples and Exercises

Introduction to the New ANSI/IES Rp-08-14 Recommended Practice for Roadway Lighting

• Roadway classifications
• Luminaire
• Design criteria
• Design considerations
• Lighting for pedestrian activity
• Limiting light trespass & skyglow

Example Design Problems

• Illuminance design
• Luminance design
• Comparison of results

Lighting Design Exercises

• Designing with computer software
• Considering energy efficiency, connected load and life cycle cost in design
• Retrofit Design Exercise
• Complex geometries, intersections and other special cases

Translating Design to Practice: How the Real World Gets in the Way

• Applying theoretical spacing to plan
• Intersection adjustments
• Utility considerations
• Trees and landscape coordination
•  Specification and construction issues

Lighting Design Plan Sheet Exercise

Roadway Lighting  - Electrical Basics

• Basic lighting circuits
• Electrical plans, details, and panel schedules
• Voltage drop calculations

Adaptive Lighting and Lighting Controls

Poles. Foundations and Safety

• Pole materials
• Typical foundation design
• Alternative foundation types
• Direct burial poles
• Clear zone considerations
• Breakaway assemblies

Registration Date/Time:
11/10/2026 08:45am Central Time

Event Dates/Times:

• 4/13/2027  9:00am - 11:30am Central Time
• 4/15/2027  9:00am - 11:30am Central Time
• 4/20/2027  9:00am - 11:30am Central Time
• 4/22/2027  9:00am - 11:30am Central Time
• 4/27/2027  9:00am - 11:30am Central Time
• 4/29/2027  9:00am - 11:30am Central Time

• Instructors

  Benjamin Jordan

  Program Director

  Benjamin J. Jordan, P.E. is a Program Director at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, College of Engineering, Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, where he develops continuing education courses for civil engineers and public works professionals. He has over forty years of experience in civil engineering and public works. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign and a Master of Public Affairs degree with a Graduate Certificate in Public Management from the University of Missouri – Columbia. Mr. Jordan is a  Licensed Professional Engineer in  Illinois, Washington, And Wisconsin.

  Suzanne Lansford

  Suzanne Lansford, PE, is the president and principal of REDD Inc., DBA Town Lighting Engineers, a consulting engineering firm in Phoenix, Arizona. Lansford specializes in roadway and outdoor lighting projects, traffic signal design, and related technical and environmental permitting. She is a member of the IES Roadway Lighting Executive Committee and a Southwest Region Director of the American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE). She earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University.

  Michael Maltezos

  Michael Maltezos, ASCE, MCIE, MIES, is an Assistant Vice President, Lighting at WSP.  He has over 30 years of experience in the field of roadway, tunnel and transit lighting and is a subject matter expert in roadway and transit tunnel lighting. He is a member of the IESNA  Roadway Lighting Committee and Chair of the IESNA Tunnels and Underpasses Committee, which writes the Tunnels Chapter of the ANSI/IESNA RP-8 Recommended Practice for Roadway Lighting. He is also a member of a member of Committee Internationale Eclairage (CIE – International Commission on Illumination).

  Aaron Keil

  Electrical Engineer

  Aaron Keil, LC is a lighting designer at Wi-Skies, LLC an electrical engineering firm which specializes in all DOT electrical applications, such as roadway lighting, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), tolling, traffic signal design, electric vehicle (EV), solar and wind applications, construction inspection, commissioning, maintenance and operation. He is also the owner of Northern Lights Design, LLC, a residential and commercial lighting design firm and an instructor for Lighting Analysts AGi32 software. He earned his BS in Architectural Engineering with an Electrical Systems Specialty from the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Aaron has over 10 years of experience in lighting design, representation and sales. He has completed a wide range of lighting designs in his career, including residential, commercial, industrial, educational, healthcare, sports lighting, agricultural, government, and roadway projects.  

  Aaron lives in La Crosse, WI with his family, two dogs and three cats. When he is not spending time with the family, Aaron is an avid whitetail bowhunter.

• Program Director

  Benjamin Jordan