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Highway maintenance

Good Highway maintenance is essential now and into the future to ensure that roads are safe to drive on. Authorities and Organisations responsible for Highway maintenance need accurate up to date surveys of the road network to enable this to happen. Retroreflectometers like the RetroTek-M and the RetroTek-MU (USA) System are needed to measure the RL values and absence / presence of road markings to ensure that all roads are maintained to the highest standards.

6 of Britain’s 10 “most Improved” Roads feature better road markings

EuroRap (European Road Assesment Programme) have just published their "British EuroRAP Results 2016 – Performance Tracking Tables " which say that "6 of Britain's 10 "most Improved" Roads feature better road markings. These Performance Tracking Tables provide valuable information to all road users and those responsible for the design, building and maintenance of the road [...]

2017-02-09T14:32:13+00:00Highway maintenance, Road Industry News, road lines, Road Maintenance, road markings|
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Road Markings vital for autonomous vehicles

It is estimated that by 2025 at least half of the vehicles on Europe's roads will have some ability to "read" the road ahead. These vehicles will not work if the road markings and lines upon which they rely are not maintained to a high standard. This will place additional pressures on governments and road [...]

2017-01-30T10:49:40+00:00Autonomous vehicles, Driverless Cars, dual-line mobile retroreflectometers, Highway maintenance, Measure Retroreflection, Retroreflectivity, Road Industry News, road lines, Road Maintenance, road markings|
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DfT plans ‘roadmap to fully automated vehicles’

Autonomous vehicles are on the way and will form a substantial part of the road transport fleet in the next few years. Governments all over the world are getting to grips with all that this will entail, both good and bad, and many are putting together plans and strategies to assist them with making the [...]

2017-02-09T14:36:57+00:00Autonomous vehicles, Driverless Cars, Highway maintenance, Road Industry News, Road Maintenance|
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Race for driverless cars hots up

The Surveyor Transport Network wrote an interesting article in August about how the "Race for driverless cars" is hotting up with Uber announcing plans to roll out self-driving taxis in America, Ford vowing to put driverless cars on the road by 2021 and Helsinki unveiling driverless buses. Read the full article HERE   It [...]

2017-02-13T14:17:52+00:00Autonomous vehicles, Driverless Cars, Highway maintenance, Measure Retroreflection, Retroreflectivity, Road Industry News, road lines, road markings|
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European Union Road Federation Position Paper towards improving Traffic Signs in European Roads

This European Union Road Federation Position Paper published in November 2015 highlights the importance of the proper design, placement and in particular maintenance of Vertical Road Signs across the European Union. This is becoming a critical road safety issue particularly when you consider the ageing population and increasing cross border traffic. These issues combined with [...]

2017-02-13T14:23:35+00:00Highway maintenance, Measure Retroreflection, Retroreflectivity, Road Industry News, traffic signs|
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Retroreflectivity to become more important for highways authorities

First publishedin The Global Road Safety Review 2016 as: Reflecting the future Retroreflectivity is only going to become more important for highways authorities: Jon Masters reviews some of this year’s major developments RMS launched the RetroTek-M traffic speed retroreflectometer in late 2015 and has developed the RetroTek-View suite of reporting software "Measurement [...]

2019-01-10T15:35:23+00:00Highway maintenance, Measure Retroreflection, Press, Retroreflectivity, Road Industry News, road markings, traffic signs|
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RetroTek™ – Mobile Retroreflectometer Certified to EN1436

StrausZert e.V. certify the RetroTek-M as a suitable Mobile Pavement Retroreflectometer for measuring the coefficient of retroreflected luminance RL of road markings. RetroTek-M fitted to vehicle RetroTek-M surveys full lane width Dublin, Ireland, March 30, 2016– The RetroTek-M is the first Dual Line mobile retroreflectometer to be certified to [...]

2017-02-14T14:47:14+00:00Highway maintenance, Measure Retroreflection, Press Releases, Retroreflectivity, Road Industry News, Road Maintenance, road markings|
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