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The Signal | Jan/Feb 2017
Safer Roads Save Lives
Visit 2017 New Products Rollout Event Entrants
at Traffic Expo
MDI Traffic Control Products – Booth # 819
Product: MDI Compact Privacy Screen
ADDCO – Booth # 237
Product: ADDCO PCMS 2017
Allied Tube and Conduit – Booth # 613
Product: MASSH-400 Sign Support Post
Southwest Barricades – Booth # 1010
Product: ADA Trailer Ramp
Pexco/Davidson Traffic Control Products – Booth # 1101
Product: City Post Model GD
Blasters, Inc – Booth # 150
Product: The Liquidator Water Blast System
Professional Pavement Products, Inc. – Booth # 1231
Product: LLG7 - Vision System
Verdegro Group (Netherlands) – Booth # 313
Product: BLADE TMA
Solar Technology, Inc. – Booth # 511
Product: Portable Changeable Arrow Boards with Built-In
Remote Communications
Plastic Safety Systems (PSS) – Booth # 401
Product: Platform Plus
Pi Variables, Inc. – Booth # 625
Product: pi-Lit Ice Cream Sandwich Rechargable LED Flare Set &
pi-Lit Landing Zone Kit (LZ-Kit) (Two products total)
Nite Beam Products – Booth # 331
Product: Hi Vision Rechargeable LED Hard Hat & Hi Vision LED
Work Gloves (Two products total)
Royal Truck & Equipment, Inc. – Booth # 454
Product: Autonomous Truck Mounted Attenuator (ATMA)
The Dow Chemical Company – Booth # 924
Product: FASTRACK 5408 all acrylic latex for waterborne
pavement marking
Orafol Americas – Booth # 421
Product: ORALITE Optimum UV Digital Traffic Sign
Printing System
Triple Domain Vision Company, Ltd. – Booth # 741
Product: iBox 10, iBox 20, iBox 40, iBox 800, iPark
(Five products total)
Machine Vision and Road Markings Research (NCHRP)
Workshop Explores Advanced Driver Assist Systems
Don’t miss Machine Vision and Road Markings Research NCHRP
(National Cooperative Highway Research Program) during
ATSSA’s 47th Annual Convention & Traffic Expo at the Phoenix
Convention Center from 8:30 to 10 a.m., Feb. 14. Led by Rob
Dingess, of Mercer Strategic Alliance, Inc., the workshop will
feature guest speaker Dr. Paul Carlson, of Texas A & M
Transportation Institute. Machine Vision and Road Markings
Research (NCHRP) delves into lane keep and lane departure
systems and their use of road markings as guides. Attendees will
learn how the NCHRP has funded research designed to understand
which marking characteristics are important for machine-reading
technologies. The American Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials and the Society of Automotive Engineers
are working together to determine if a joint-specification is possible
for marking/machine systems.
“Vehicle technologies are changing faster than ever and have the
potential to make roadways safer,” said Carlson. “The technologies
used are called advanced driver assist systems (ADAS), within
which include some of the more common systems, such as lane
departure warning and side view assist. Estimates from the
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety show the positive annual
impact these systems have on fatal and serious injury crashes in the
U.S.” (See the table below for safety estimates).
To achieve the full potential of ADAS, sometimes the infrastructure
needs to adapt. For example, for lane departure warning the vehicle
has to be able to detect markings for the technology to work. This is
a new requirement for pavement markings. For 100 years, pavement
markings have been designed for the human driver. Now, they must
be designed and maintained for both the human driver and
machine-sensing technologies. The NCHRP has implemented a
project that will provide the first-ever data to help understand what
pavement markings need to do in order for machine-sensing
technologies to reliably detect them in various conditions.
The table below shows the safety estimates.
ADAS type
All types of crashes Injury Fatal
Side view assist
395,000
20,000 393
Forward collision warning 1,165,000
66,000 879
Adaptive headlights
142,000
29,000 2,484
Lane departure warning 179,000
37,000 7,529
The following exhibitors are entered in the New Products Rollout
Event and will vie for the 2017 ATSSA Innovation Awards. Award
winners will be announced on the final day of Traffic Expo (Feb. 14).
Find out more about their products and services by visiting them at
their booths during ATSSA’s Traffic Expo hours.