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PURPOSE AND SCOPE

These recommendations include interior and exterior lighting practices for the reasonably safe movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic in parking facilities, enhancement of personal safety, and deterrence of vandalism and theft, while optimizing energy use and minimizing maintenance. This document deals entirely with lighting and does not give advice on construction. It provides recommended practices for designing new lighting systems for parking facilities, and it is not intended to be applied to existing lighting systems until such systems are redesigned. However, this document does represent current good practice.

These recommendations include interior and exterior lighting practices for the reasonably safe movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic in parking facilities, enhancement of personal safety, and deterrence of vandalism and theft, while optimizing energy use and minimizing maintenance. Their application may vary from these recommendations based upon sound engineering judgment (see Section 4.5).

The guidelines exclude recommendations for public roads (see ANSI/IES RP-8-14, Roadway Lighting10), and bikeways and walkways, which are given in other IES publications (as cited). Environmental issues (light trespass, light pollution, stray light, glare and control of light) are covered in detail in IES RP-33-14, IES Recommended Practice on Lighting for Exterior Environments. Security lighting is covered in IES G-1-16, Security Lighting Guidelines for People, Property, and Critical Infrastructure.