Edeva to deliver two ActiBumps to Curtain University in Western Australia

Edeva is to deploy two active speed bumps at Curtain University in Perth, Western Australia, following an initial deployment in which speeding was reduced from 70% to 25%. Edeva’s Actibump detects the speed of oncoming vehicles and lowers its hatch by 60mm in the road surface if a driver is speeding – which sends a physical bump to the driver. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxpvwKiOpag Both Actibumps will be installed on Townsing Drive while a third is to replace a ‘dumb bump’, a moulded black plas
January 14, 2019 Read time: 1 min

5955 Edeva is to deploy two active speed bumps at Curtain University in Perth, Western Australia, following an initial deployment in which speeding was reduced from 70% to 25%.

Edeva’s Actibump detects the speed of oncoming vehicles and lowers its hatch by 60mm in the road surface if a driver is speeding – which sends a physical bump to the driver.

Both Actibumps will be installed on Townsing Drive while a third is to replace a ‘dumb bump’, a moulded black plastic bump near the Manning Road entrance, which has caused traffic to slow down to a near stop.  

Edeva says its Actibumps are maintenance free and have not required any intervention since being installed last year.

In July 2018, Curtain University activated two ActiBump systems along a %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 link-external road false http://www.itsinternational.com/categories/detection-monitoring-machine-vision/products/actibump-installed-at-curtain-university-to-tackle-speeding/ false false%> around its campus during the summer break.

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