《Designing Roadway Lighting in Zemax》.pdf

Designing Roadway Lighting in Zemax This article discusses how to use the Roadway Lighting Designer in Zemax and specific features in that can make the roadway lighting designer more efficient and productive. Authored by: Akash Arora Published on: February 5, 2013 INTRODUCTION Zemax has a few tools that can aid the designer of roadway lights in analyzing and optimizing luminaires. The roadway lighting analysis will compute specifications based upon the CIE 140-2000 standard and quickly indicate whether the luminaire is passing or failing each specification. The NSC Roadway Merit Function takes this one step further and provides these data as optimization targets with the full power of Zemax’ optimization engine available. In this article we look at the details of these features and how they can make the roadway lighting designer more efficient and productive. THE ROADWAY LIGHTING ANALYSIS As stated previously, Zemax’s Roadway Lighting Analysis calculates specifications according to the CIE 140-2000 standard. The values computed pertain to the distribution of light from a luminaire on the roadway and the glare seen by a driver approaching the lit section of roadway. The computed values include average luminance, overall uniformity of luminance, longitudinal uniformity of luminance, threshold increment, surround ratio, average illuminance, minimum illuminance, and uniformity of illuminance. Luminance values depend on the composition of the roadway (surface classification) and on the position of the oncoming driver. The value provided is the worst among all lanes of the roadway as dictated by the CIE standard. Illuminance values simply compute the distribution of lamp flux on and adjacent to the roadway. All of these values require several parameters to be specified that define the roadway lighting configuration. As shown in the settings window below, the analysis allows the user to specify mounting height, spacin