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SECTION ONE: BACKGROUND, RESEARCH APPROACH, AND RECOMMENDATIONS 1-3 CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH APPROACH BACKGROUND Recently many states have shifted their priority from building new facilities to maintaining and improving those already in existence. Daytime lane closures for rehabilitation work results in heavy congestion on roads already loaded to capacity.
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1-4 SECTION ONE: BACKGROUND, RESEARCH APPROACH, AND RECOMMENDATIONS Work activities with similar seeing tasks from other industries were matched with the highway tasks. Recommended illumination levels were assigned to the highway activities.
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SECTION ONE: BACKGROUND, RESEARCH APPROACH, AND RECOMMENDATIONS 1-5 CHAPTER 2 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS SUMMARY OF FINDINGS The purpose of this research was to develop guidelines for the illumination of nighttime highway work including both construction and maintenance activities. Additionally, the research developed guidelines for highway work area lighting design and investigated the use of temporary roadway lighting in connection with highway construction.
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1-6 SECTION ONE: BACKGROUND, RESEARCH APPROACH, AND RECOMMENDATIONS • SECTION TWO: Illumination Guidelines for Nighttime Highway Work • SECTION THREE: Guidelines for Work Zone Illumination Design • SECTION FOUR: Guidelines for the Use of Temporary Roadway Lighting Sections One, Two, and Three focus on different aspects of the general topic of lighting nighttime highway work activities. To facilitate the use of these individual sections, they have been structured more or less as "stand-alone" documents within this report.
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