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School zone safety is crucial to protect children, reduce accidents, encourage active transportation, and foster a positive learning environment. It instills safe habits, improves parental peace of mind, and promotes community responsibility. Ensuring school zone safety is a collective effort…

PPP Transportation Safety Innovations is on the brink of a groundbreaking development with its upcoming product, the E-Retro Retroreflectometer. The E-Retro is set to redefine retroreflectivity instrumentation in the transportation industry with its essential features, economical pricing, and user-friendly design.…

Pedestrian Refuges, Lane Dividers, Traffic Circles, Bike Lanes, Speed Humps, Speed Cushions and Curb Extensions Using quick-build materials for infrastructure improvements offers several advantages for agencies. Here are some reasons why an agency might choose to utilize these materials: 1.…

Using the technology of Near-Miss analysis for project prioritization and success analysis. Making our roads safer takes research, development, and implementation. The greatest challenge to effective implementation is often project prioritization. The traditional factors in prioritizing projects include concerns of politics, finance,…

ASFT is the second such partnership established in the past 12 months. PPP strives to bring first-in-class solutions to road safety issues in North America and beyond. As a leader in road safety infrastructure, a reputation for innovation, and a…

Handheld retroreflectometers can be manipulated to report higher retroreflectivity. Ok, it is time to level with you. I know I am likely to get in trouble for this one. But those who know me, understand that I say it like it…

Can I Rent a Retroreflectometer? Purchasing a retroreflectometer is a costly investment.  However, PPP Transportation Safety Innovations offers short term and longer term rental programs. PPP has offered a limited rental program for these instruments for a number of years.…

What is a retroreflectometer? In the most simple of terms a retroreflectometer is an instrument that assesses a pavement marking or sign’s nighttime visibility. These instruments provide an accurate visibility assessment by measuring the retroreflectivity of the material tested. This…

The cost of a pavement marking retroreflectometer can run between $12,000 and $150,000. A retroreflectometer is a specialized instrument used in the measurement and assessment of roadway pavement markings (lines) and signs. Retroreflectivity is what makes possible the visibility of…

The leading markings and sign assessment experts at PPP pick Screening Eagle's Zehntner Line of retroreflectometers to advance North America's road safety.    PPP, long known for its leadership and expertise in markings and sign assessment technologies, is taking the…

A PPP Quick-Share Here is a potential high-tech solution to improving the safety of vulnerable road-users like pedestrians and cyclists. It can detect a user's presence and even direction, through the capture of Bluetooth, WiFi, or cellular signal.  Then pass…

A PPP Quick-Share Post A cool innovative lighting system that not only assists in edge delineation of a fog-laden roadway, but also acts as a dynamic traffic management device that warns oncoming drivers of real-time reduced or stopped vehicles ahead.…

Crashes involving vehicles going the wrong way on North Carolina highways killed 164 people between 2000 and 2017, according to the state Department of Transportation. In 2019 the North Carolina Turnpike Authority began an aggressive pilot campaign to reduce and…

28,205 motorists 6283 pedestrians  854 cyclists    35,342 Total Roadway Deaths in the United States* Those are sobering statistics for just 12 months. Multiplied by a decade and you approach a half a million fathers, mothers, sons and daughters that never…

It’s widely accepted that we are about to go through the biggest change in road transportation since the first car was sold in 1896. Electric and automated vehicles present an enormous opportunity for stakeholders in road safety. But the time…

Written By: Greg Driskell For the purpose of this article, we define visual delineation as a device or process that provides for visual separation and identification of the lanes or objects within the roadway. The most common examples of visual…

5500-mile marking assessment reveals four simple ways to make automated driving safer. PPP's Measure Across America Project (MAAP) spans across 18 states and nearly 6000 miles. The purpose of the project is to promote pavement marking management to improve the…

With today's accelerated technological advancements, it is easy to misinterpret the scope of innovation. Limiting our vision and thoughts to only those things made up of chips and circuits. However, innovation always has and always will, come in many forms. A…

Tens of thousands of MedianAlerts™ have been used around the world for effective visual delineation of medians. Undoubtably, these innovative devices have made the roads safer for both pedestrians and motorists. But agencies have often taken it a step further and…

A not so unusual pavement marking phenomenon (as seen in this video) has recently become a hot topic among state DOTs. It's likely that you have personally witnessed this mysterious occurrence. You are diving down the highway and suddenly the…

PPP's announces its coast to coast Measure Across America Project, to promote the improvement of pavement markings for both human and machine drivers. The pilot to the Measure Across America Project (MAAP) was conducted last August in correlation with ATSSA…

Struggles for Elected Officials Our local elected officials are often expected to be an expert in all things. They are responsible for hundreds of decisions every year on a wide range of issues. One such issue addressed across all local…

My car is imported, my computer is imported, my clothes are imported, my fuel is imported, even my toothbrush is imported. In fact, it is difficult for me to find anything made in America these days.  The other day I…

A long time ago, I was explaining the features of one of our new products to a mentor.  He surprisingly responded, “So, what?”.  At first, I couldn’t tell if he didn’t hear me clearly or if he was just rude. …

It’s been about two years since we began expanding our pavement marking knowledge and experience into the airfield environment.  It has been an excitingly, fast-paced learning curve for us here at PPP.  Fortunately, with our near three decades in the…

To get started let's first address the importance of pavement markings to roadway safety. FHWA states that pavement markings are to convey a message to the road user. Messages of guidance and regulation are accomplished through a sort of visual…

The owners and employees of PPP, Inc. are embarking on a 5-year worldwide safety initiative.  In it, they have committed to provide a goal of $1 million of roadway and transportation safety solutions to underfunded agencies around the world. The PPP Team had…

Caltrans approves innovative wrong-way driving countermeasure LaneAlert 2x™ for experimental use. In the January Caltrans' CTCDC meeting, the board gave approval to move forward with the experimental use of the innovative wrong-way driving countermeasure LaneAlert 2x™ on California roadways. According…

Case Profile Dark roads and hard to see medians spell big trouble for Texas town Number of medians: 600  Number of lane miles: 300 lane miles Location: Flower Mound, Texas The Problem Just 20 miles Northwest of Dallas is the ever-growing…

Nearly a year after its successful introduction, the award-winning LaneAlert 2x™ is now in production. "It has been a challenging year perfecting the formulas and processes needed to make it the effective, quality product that we demanded.", states Greg Driskell,…

For Transportation Safety OK, we just couldn’t wait! 2018 was an important year for PPP, but in 2019 we are excited to bring some very new solutions to existing transportation problems that plague all of our roadways. Need to call extra attention to…

Our friends at Tech Briefs recently hosted a web presentation about how autonomous vehicles interpret roadway markings. In-car cameras capture real-world scenarios and the cars’ behavior. We all know this technology will impact how we plan and maintain our roadways.…

(Jacksonville, FL) PPP Inc., Manufacturer, and distributor of transportation safety products has announced its much-anticipated fall/winter meeting schedule featuring some of the most innovative as well as lifesaving product solutions for roadways. Solution specialists Jake Harris, Chris Adkins, and Monika Thompson…