Street Lighting

Street lighting is lighting designed to provide night time illumination for road users.

Although street lights are not generally a Council asset, Councils pay for the electricity costs associated with street lighting.

Useful Life

The useful life of street lighting will vary considerably due to a range of environmental & other factors. A useful life of 25 years appears to be typical for the runways operated by the organisations listed below.

Please feel free to improve the table by adding your Council or organisation's information.

Asset Owner Adopted Life Austroads 6 20 years Brimbank City Council 35-50 years Whittlesea City Council 20 years

Related Pages

• Area Lighting
• Emergency Lighting

External Links & References

1. Wikipedia
2. New Inventors
3. Queensland Energy Efficient Street Lighting Trial
4. Canberra Central Lighting Notes (3.5MB PDf) - Canberra Central Design Manual
5. Motion Sensing Streetlight System (Gizmag)
6. Road Safety Engineering Risk Assessment Part 4: Treatment Life for Road Safety Measures