Maintenance Mechanism For Urban Road Illumination Functions：Lessons Learned In Taipei Street Lights Maintenance Management

The urban street illumination mainly depends on the street lights and their correlative apparatuses. The street lights can provide illumination function, keep good street vision for the drivers and the pedestrians, achieve the goal of traffic safety, lower the crime rate, and promote the convenient living of the residents. To enable the street illumination function normally, the authorities must have a good street lights maintenance/ management institution. Meanwhile, according to the illumination function standards to carry out the street lights maintenance works regularly.
Mostly the domestic street lights maintenance follows "repairing with noticed", appraises the street lights repair and the maintenance achievements by "blackout rate", but not yet discussed probing the street lights maintenance mechanism, so that the maintenance result is unable to reveal. This thesis utilizes the "Maintenance Prevention’s concept", consider prevention to the designing, construction, and maintenance aspects by the standard codes, and through expert interview with the experienced designers and managers, to classify the issue, so as analyze the problem through " Proactive Maintenance’s method" to checking part of the street lights breakdown records noticed by the citizens and the district maintenance crew, the author found that the main reason of street lights blackout is "the street light’s bulb breakdown" or "the underground line damaged". In addition, according to the “2/8 principles”, using expert interview to propose the countermeasure solutions. Moreover, the discussion through most suitable street lights maintenance pattern to get rid of street lights trouble, regular replacement and frequent patrolling and repairing. For upkeep the quality of the street lights service materials, the authorities can lengthen the street lights life span. For a contracted maintaining company, However, in practical operations, the company’s ability of fulfilling the contract (to be supposed to have machines and manpower), calculates expense at each maintenance work in true and due process, checks the project quality, estimates pays , the partial approvals of engineering, and calculated it’s guarantee deadline, etc. all have to be strengthened , and then the characteristics such as "quick & convenient”, “repair immediately”, and “promotion efficiency” are fulfilled. In the maintenance/ management’s aspect, applying the information system to the street lights maintenance may promote potency. The result of this thesis may help the functioning of maintenance/ management mechanism.