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 that info to motorists through mounted signs and eventually into the vehicle itself. I met … Developing Pedestrian Detection Innovation
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. I had been monitoring these folks for a while, admiring the innovative solutions they were … Got Fog?
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 even eliminate these deadly crashes on their road system. They took up both conventional and … North Carolina Turnpike adds the LaneAlert 2x to their arsenal of wrong way driving countermeasures.
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 said goodbye and were taken too soon. It’s unacceptable and must change. While achieving the Zero … Simple Fixes to the Greatest Roadway Safety Threats
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 is now. How the industry evolves over the next 5 years will set a series … The New Roles in Transportation Safety
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 delineation are road markings, raised reflective pavement markers and traffic signs. There are four primary … The Four C’s of Roadway Visual Delineation
5500-mile marking assessment reveals four simple ways to make automated driving safer. By far the most common issue. In such areas, the right edge line is stopped. Often leaving the merge area open and void of markings. Once the vehicle loses sight of the right line, it spots the merging lane’s edge line and attempts … Four Simple Ways to Make Automated Driving Safer.
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 year or two ago we at PPP adopted the “Safe, Smart, Simple Solutions” motto. We … Innovation Made Simple
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 used the MedianAlert™ to delineate other structures in the roadway system. In 2014 the MedianAlert™ … MedianAlert™: Enhancing more than medians
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 pavement markings seemingly disappear. But the strange thing is, that if you look in the … The mystery of the disappearing pavement marking
