Do you know your Highway Gothic from your Clearview? Neither did we - but this brilliant video from Vox explains why the lettering on US highway signs is evolving...
Kapsch TrafficCom’s Christoph Amlacher explains that the key to successful Electronic Vehicle Registration is to consider a deployment in its entirety — including enforcement. Electronic Vehicle Registration (EVR) shares much in common with large-scale city congestion charging, in that its benefits are numerous and obvious, and it has been a topic of lively discussion for a decade and more. Despite such manifest advantages and widespread interest, this has failed to translate into numerous large-scale deplo
The next generation of roads - the ‘fifth generation’ - will provide the world’s highway authorities with a big leap forward, delegates to the recent European Road Conference heard.
Adewole Adesiyun, deputy secretary general at the Brussels-based Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories (FEHRL), said a paradigm shift is taking place, offering “solutions to existing and future problems with new ways to use smart, intelligent and dynamic technologies”.
The first four generations of roa
According to road safety engineer Alan Vass of the Traffic and Road Safety section of Ayrshire Roads Alliance in Scotland, LED road studs have contributed to a 100 per cent reduction in incidents on a stretch of the A719 road in the county.
Vass says the active studs, which use LED and solar technology to create delineation shown to be far more effective than traditional retro-reflective studs, could hold the key to a brighter future.
He said: “There had been a number of accidents on the A719 near Wat
