The primary functions and significance of sanitation vehicles

Road cleaning: Mechanized equipment such as road sweepers and eco-friendly floor-sweeping vehicles is used to remove debris, fallen leaves, and dust from road surfaces, reducing the burden of manual cleaning and improving efficiency.

　　Road cleaning: Mechanized equipment such as road sweepers and eco-friendly floor-sweeping vehicles is used to remove litter, fallen leaves, and dust from road surfaces, reducing the burden of manual cleaning and improving efficiency. For example, a new all‑electric sweeper can achieve an operational efficiency more than three times that of manual labor.

　　Waste collection and transportation: Garbage trucks—such as compactor, hook-arm, and self-unloading models—collect municipal solid waste from residential communities and streets and transport it to treatment facilities, ensuring sealed transport to prevent secondary pollution.

　　Dust suppression through water spraying: Water sprinkler trucks, mist cannons, and similar vehicles are used to wash roads and suppress dust, thereby improving air quality—particularly effective in dry conditions or at construction sites.

　　Specialized operations include sewage‑suction trucks for clearing sludge from sewers, high‑pressure cleaning trucks for flushing pipelines, and snow‑removal vehicles for handling winter snow accumulations, thereby meeting the diverse needs of urban environments.

　　Enhance the city’s image and residents’ quality of life.

　　Keeping streets clean and well-maintained helps enhance the city’s aesthetic appeal and residents’ sense of well-being.

　　Supporting the “Dual Carbon” Goals

　　New-energy sanitation vehicles—both battery-electric and hydrogen-fuel cell—achieve zero emissions and low noise levels. In Luzhou, Yibin, and other cities in Sichuan Province, they have been rolled out on a large scale, helping to reduce the carbon footprint.

　　Improve operational efficiency and safety

　　Autonomous sanitation vehicles can operate autonomously in complex environments, achieving efficiency more than ten times that of manual labor while reducing the risks associated with human workers operating in traffic.

　　Promote smart city development

　　Smart sanitation vehicles are connected to an IoT platform, enabling remote monitoring, automated dispatching, and route optimization to achieve refined management.