Highway Lighting or Roadway Lighting [Standard Codes]. Highway lighting consists of providing illumination through lights in the vicinity of a highway/road/street. It plays a major part in ensuring of highway safety during night driving and includes the aspect of roadside amenities for the convenience of the road-users, and preserving the aesthetics of the highway and its vicinity during the nights. [...]
A good highway network provides several benefits to the general public and the society at large. However, any new highway project, or improvements to an existing highway for meeting increased traffic demands should be justified from the economic point of view. That is to say, an analysis of the economic cost - the initial cost and maintenance cost over the [...]
Highway economic analysis, also known as highway project appraisal, involves quantification of the costs of and benefits from a scheme over a selected time horizon and evaluation by a common yardstick. The technique is also known as benefit-cost analysis. Such economic evaluation serves a number of purposes: (i) To rank different schemes within the highway sector. (ii) To assist in [...]