Hubei: Enshi general highway tunnel LED lighting to promote the province

The car comes to light, the car goes dark (or lights off), the reasonable dynamic dimming. Enshi Hubei highway department actively explore the use of LED lighting system for the safety of highway tunnels to explore a new way of energy-saving lighting. August 9th to 10, 2009, Hubei and cities and counties (forest) Department of the relevant person in charge of the road Enshi, learning to promote the experience of Enshi.

At present, Enshi put into operation a total of 12 ordinary highway tunnel 11 kilometers, 9 kilometers reply to be built 10 tunnels. In order to solve ordinary highway tunnel lighting with high input, high energy consumption, relying on the State Highway Department from highway roads white stone milk off the tunnel and south highway tunnel engineering construction crane, research project of ordinary highway tunnel LED Lighting Saving results. Compared with the traditional high power high sodium lamp, LED lighting system has the advantages of high light efficiency, low energy consumption, little investment and so on. According to preliminary statistics, two projects a total of more than 1500 yuan investment in the lighting system, the annual operating cost savings of nearly $500 thousand.

Peng Gongquan, deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Highway Bureau of the Enshi experience fully affirmed that the promotion of the province's highway system. He stressed that the highway departments at all levels should strengthen the road of scientific and technological innovation sense of responsibility and mission, to promote road science and technology innovation, increase efforts to promote technological innovation, improve the level of science and technology innovation and application of highway, focus on building a resource-saving and environment-friendly road traffic.

Participants also watched the remote monitoring demonstration site, and to the 209 State Road East Gate tunnel site to observe the application of LED lighting system.