Highway Lights

What is LED Highway Lighting?

LED Highway roadway lighting includes all forms of lighting that you can find on a highway. Overpass, underpass, interchanges, exits, and merge lanes lighting. Its purpose is to improve the driving experience and safety in dark or night conditions.

Different Types of LED Highway Lighting

There are many types of highway road lighting. General street lighting, interchange high mast lights, pedestrian lighting, cobra head street lighting, and overpass lighting. LED Lighting Supply specializes in interchange high mast lighting.

Naics Code 237310 Relation to Lighting

This code relates to construction and maintenance work performed on highways. For a complete reference, click here.

Typical Cost of LED Highway Lighting

That depends on the light you’re replacing. An underpass light is inexpensive. A DOT high mast interchange cluster is more expensive. These are high-power lights and there are many lights per pole. Contact us today to discuss your requirements. We can supply a product recommendation and quote.

Is it Best to Retrofit or Use New LED Fixtures to Upgrade Highway Lighting Fixtures?

It’s best to replace the fixtures. While we offer retrofit options, they require optics to ensure proper light distribution. We do offer both, so contact us and we can work through the best option for your application.

When it Makes Sense to Use a Solar Lighting for a Highway

The issue with solar highway lights is that it is somewhat limited in the number of lumens it produces. The second issue is that it has limited battery power. In case there are a few dark days, the lights may not operate at night.

Best Lighting to Use in a Highway Underpass

Usually, we recommend wall packs or canopies for underpasses. The fixture used will depend on the mounting required and the needed amount of light.

What LED Color Temperature is Best for Piercing Fog?

Lower color temperatures work best. So if that is a major criterion, we would recommend 3000K – 4000K for foggy conditions.

Best LED Lights for Highway Construction

LED Flood lights produce focussed light so that you can illuminate the work area.

Best LED Lighting to Use on a Highway Overpass

We would recommend pole-mounted streetlights for this application.

LED Retrofits to Replace Portable Lighting Systems

Yes, we can replace metal halide with LED flood lights on your portable lighting systems. They can be very compact and provide great light output.

Lumen Output of LED Highway High Mast Lighting

Our most powerful freeway high mast lighting fixture produces around 125,000 lumens – this may be way more than you need. You can easily replace 1000-watt metal halide or high-pressure sodium with much less. Also, optics are very important for highway lighting. It allows you to control the spread of light and to put more light on the ground. When you use the right optics, you will usually need fewer lumens.

Best Highway LED Tunnel Lighting

Wall-mounted / ceiling-mounted linear fixtures are a good choice. They should also be able to withstand the environment of handling car exhaust.

Best Optics to Use on a Highway Application

That all depends on the type of light. We have found that, for highway interchanges, high mast lights and a wide beam optic work best.

Best Mounting Height for Lighting on a Highway

For highway interchanges, 60 to 80 feet or higher is desirable.

Are Your LED Fixtures Impact Resistant?

Yes, many of our fixtures have a high impact rating. Look for the IK01-IK10 icons on the product pages. IK10 is the strongest.

Best Height to Mount Highway Lights

That depends on the type of highway LED lights, illumination requirements, and their purpose. But we usually see 30 feet plus. We offer many types of mounting options

Ideal Spacing for LED Highway Lighting

We’d be happy to create a free lighting plan for you, to help you find the right answer. Every location, situation, and roadway is different. A lighting plan will sort out the spacing criteria.

Installing LED Lights on a Highway

Our LED Lights are relatively easy to install and are no more difficult than the traditional Metal Halide or High-Pressure Sodium Lights they are designed to replace.