Evaluating the Efficiency and Benchmarking of Regions in an Electricity Distribution Company Using a Public Lighting Asset Management Model

Public lighting networks are constructed and maintained to provide social security and traffic safety. Due to the expansion of cities, the development in public lighting is inevitable. In addition to new investment, the public lighting service and maintenance program imposes high costs on distribution companies. Since performance assessment methods focus on a combination of key performance indicators and provide relative efficiency, distribution companies should identify the effective efficiency factors and then set economic goals. This research, simultaneously uses  public lighting asset management model and assesses the efficiency and benchmarking of regions, and finally proposes a tool for setting economic goals for initial investment and maintenance of public lighting to Regulator and Distribution Company. This tool allows comparing costs and, using manufacturer information on the lifetime of the parts. The results show that actual maintenance costs are significantly higher than maintenance costs based on the nominal lifetime of the parts.