Guide for Lighting at Innovative Intersections/Interchanges, including Roundabouts

Innovative intersections and interchanges are junctions of two or more roads that do not use traditional intersection or interchange layouts. Examples include diverging diamonds, restricted crossing U-turns, displaced left turns, and roundabouts. Most innovative intersections/interchanges installed in the United States have roadway lighting, in part because lighting is supported by Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Alternative Intersection and Interchange Report, and NCHRP Report 672: Roundabouts: An Informational Guide, second edition. Lighting, however, adds significantly to construction and maintenance costs, which can be a barrier to constructing roundabouts and other innovative intersections/interchanges. Research is needed to help practitioners determine what factors, in addition to safety, should be considered when designing lighting at these locations, such as social, environmental, economic impacts, maintenance, constructability, community concerns, and light pollution. The objective of this project is to develop a practitioners’ guide for lighting at innovative intersections/interchanges, including roundabouts that (1) documents quantitative safety benefits associated with lighting for motorists and vulnerable road users (e.g., motorcyclists, pedestrians, bicyclists) at innovative intersections/interchanges; (2) establishes evidence-based criteria for determining whether or not to install lighting; and (3) identifies best practices, noteworthy considerations, and emerging approaches for lighting design at innovative intersections/interchanges, including roundabouts.

• Record URL:
  • http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5313
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract to a Performing Organization has not yet been awarded.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $500000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 05-27

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Retting, Richard

• Performing Organizations:

  WSP USA, Inc., Parsons Brinckerhoff

  520 Nicollet Mall
  #800
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55402
• Principal Investigators:

  Lutkevich, Paul

• Start Date: 20240715
• Expected Completion Date: 20260714
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Guidelines; Interchanges and intersections; Optimization; Roundabouts; Street lighting; Traffic safety
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01847360
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 05-27
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: May 26 2022 4:53PM