Paris Metro will become the world's first full LED lighting traffic network

RER RER (French: R seau Express R gional; regional express railway, also known as large area fast iron) region of France is the French island commuter rail network, connecting Paris and adjacent areas. RER is a hybrid system, a collection of modern city center features of railway and subway natural area.

Paris public transport group RATP and PHILPS (PHILIPS) and France StepandSoitec lighting company signed a four year contract, a total of 11 million euros, they will work together to complete the Paris rapid rail network traffic system (RER) containing the 302 subway stations and 66 suburban subway station renovation 250 thousand lights.

RATP's tender was issued in June last year, the local manufacturer Step and PHILPS won the largest share of cooperation, and the rest of the Grenoble (southeast city of France) semiconductor expert Soitec is responsible for. PHILPS lighting general manager of France Benjamin Azoulay said that this cooperation will enable Paris to become the world's first fully equipped with LED lighting transportation network.

In this lighting upgrade, there will be about one million square meters of space is illuminated by LED, including the station entrance, ticket office, corridors and platforms. Paris's rapid rail network transportation system about 12 million people a day, the project will be achieved between 2004 and to reduce its energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 15%, reducing energy consumption by about 12%. Next month, the project will officially begin, the first site for the transformation of the center of Paris Franklin D metro station in 2013~2017, about more than and 100 subway stations in and RER stations to complete the transformation of each year.