Public lighting & Traffic lights

The budget situation for cities and municipalities has deteriorated dramatically in recent years. Public lighting and traffic lights are budget items that are being increasingly privatised.

In many municipalities, the focus is moving to "core business": reducing the municipality's own services to sovereign and administrative tasks.

The obvious discrepancy between costs and benefits when municipal services are compared to the services of private suppliers calls for a re-evaluation of municipal and third-party services.

Due to critical budget situations and the resultant constraints, political influence on public lighting is declining and is increasingly making way for pure cost-to-benefit thinking.

Irrespective of the cost analysis, the urban design character of public lighting has become very important.

Carbon reduction and energy saving are becoming increasingly important.