10 Facts About Street lighting

Street lighting light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path.

Public street lighting was first developed in the 16th century, and accelerated following the invention of lanterns with glass windows, which greatly improved the quantity of light.

The first place outside London in England to have gas Street lighting, was Preston, Lancashire in 1816, where Joseph Dunn's Preston Gaslight Company introduced a new, brighter gas Street lighting.

In Paris, public street lighting was first installed on a covered shopping street, the Passage des Panoramas, in 1817, private interior gas lighting having been previously demonstrated in a house on the rue Saint-Dominique seventeen years prior.

The first city in the United States to successfully demonstrate electric Street lighting was Cleveland, Ohio with 12 electric lights around the Public Square road system on 29 April 1879.

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Studies comparing metal halide and high-pressure sodium lamps have shown that at equal photopic light levels, a street scene illuminated at night by a metal halide lighting system was reliably seen as brighter and safer than the same scene illuminated by a high-pressure sodium system.

Major advantages of street lighting include prevention of accidents and increase in safety.

Major criticisms of street lighting are that it can actually cause accidents if misused, and cause light pollution.

Street lighting systems require ongoing maintenance, which can be classified as either reactive or preventative.

Street lighting Lights are the basic example of public goods, which are nonexcludable and nonrival.