Stakeholders

Stakeholder engagement is one of the research themes within the SLIC project. The main question is: which stakeholders should be involved in experiments with smart public lighting, and in what way?

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Support base

The Smart Light Concepts (SLIC) project focuses on making the lighting of public spaces more sustainable. But municipalities and provinces cannot simply adapt the street lighting: they need the support of citizens and other stakeholders.

In public space, residents and users who share the same streets and squares can have conflicting interests. That is why it is important to engage in a systematic dialogue with stakeholders when it comes to installation of or modifications to public lighting.

Ger-Jan van den Elsen, researcher at Avans University of Applied Sciences and responsible for this theme, has developed a 4-step plan for the 7 SLIC pilots to manage stakeholder involvement.

  1. Identification of the stakeholders based on a Stakeholder List;
  2. Analysis of the identified stakeholders through Gardner's Power-Interest Matrix;
  3. Development of a stakeholder engagement strategy;
  4. Development of a communication and reporting plan.
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Finance

Finance

A crucial element in implementing low-carbon public lighting (PL) technologies is the availability of financial means to invest in sustainable PL-technologies and systems and to calculate the maintenance costs during the runtime of the investment. In close co-operation between the financial researchers and all other pilot partners different methods of funding and investment are being examined, described and discussed.
Technology

Technology

The aim of the SLIC project is to calculate the added value of technologies that lead to low-carbon public lighting in the built environment. The research theme Technology focuses on monitoring and evaluating the technical side of the design of the 7 pilots. In addition, the researchers at Avans offer support to their colleagues at the University of Portsmouth to set up the Decision Support Tool (DST) for sustainable street lighting as optimally as possible.
Safety

Safety

The built environment can no longer be imagined without public lighting. Public lighting contributes to social and road safety. Good lighting ensures that people can oversee the traffic situation and / or that pedestrians or cyclists feel safe enough to be on the street in dark conditions. Scientists disagree whether lighting in itself can contribute to improving social safety. More research is needed how the design of public lighting can help people to feel safer or have a better traffic overview.