The context
Retail car parks combine three requirements: user safety, flow legibility (pedestrians, vehicles, trolleys), and compliance with horizontal marking regulations. Traditionally, these car parks are fitted with LED lighting — poles, candelabras, projectors — complemented by road paint.
Over time, two types of wear accumulate: LEDs lose intensity and require gradual source replacement; floor paint fades under vehicle traffic and cleaning. Operating costs rise, legibility drops.
The retail chain chose to partially replace this lighting with luciolles luminescent marking, aiming to reduce consumption and improve marking durability.
Our solution
luciolles marking covers the entire regulatory marking of the car park: parking bays, circulation lanes, pedestrian crossings, accessible spaces, trolley collection areas. Photoluminescent paint replaces standard road paint, and luminescent gravel is integrated in the most strategic zones.
The marking fully complies with commercial car park usage rules: stripe widths, regulatory daytime contrast, accessible signage, flow colours. By day, the luminescent marking is indistinguishable from premium road paint. By night, the entire layout appears as soft light on a dark background.
Installation took place during night-time operation, zone by zone, without fully closing the car park. The product hardens in a few hours and supports traffic the following morning.
The observed results
Regulatory compliance is maintained under all ambient lighting conditions: daytime contrast remains legible, night-time luminescence ensures marking visibility even in case of partial failure of supplementary lighting.
Operationally, the chain reduces its LED point density: where the marking ensures trajectory legibility, ambient lighting can be dimmed. Consumption decreases, so does source maintenance.
Floor marking durability increases. Luminescent gravels resist wheel wear better than standard paints, and the light they emit does not fade with visual wear — it comes from the matter, not from a surface.
For a retail chain, the equation is economic as much as experiential. The car park remains legible by all, day and night, with less energy consumed and less maintenance to schedule. For customers, night-time arrival gains visual clarity without any light aggression.