Road surface markings are used on paved roadways to provide guidance and information to drivers and pedestrians.
Road markings are used to convey a range of information to the driver spanning navigational, safety and enforcement issues leading to their use in road environment understanding within advanced driver assistance systems and consideration for future use in autonomous road vehicles.
RetroTek-MU (USA Version) a dynamic road marking/ striping retroreflectometer with full lane width capability evaluated to ASTM E 1710. StrAus-Zert, the testing, monitoring and certification association for road-owners recently evaluated the RetroTek-MU (USA Version) as a suitable Dynamic Pavement Retroreflectometer for measuring the coefficient of retroreflected luminance RL of road markings/striping according to ASTM E 1710. [...]
A pilot project on the measurement of the night visibility (retroreflectivity) of road markings on the main roads of Estonia using a mobile retroreflectometer. The contracting authority: Estonian Road Administration. Tallinn Report date: July 2017 Participated in the work of the contract: Mr. Tiit Kaal, Consultant: ERC Consulting Ltd. Estonia, Mr. Joe Turley CEO, [...]
With the advent of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, efficiently surveying and maintaining the quality of road markings has never been more important when it comes to safety. Autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles are now being driven and tested on our roads. Improving road safety is a key factor in these developments. Today’s production cars already [...]
The number of people killed on roads in the United Kingdom has increased year on year for the last three. Mike Harper in his comment piece for Surveyor Transport Network on the recently published Road Safety Foundation report asks "So have we forgotten the fundamentals of road safety? In terms of the road surface, good quality [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
First published: Intertraffic 2016, Daily News:Day 2 as: Making a line for RMS Drop by the stand of Reflective Measurement Systems (RMS) to see its new RetroTek-M mobile dual-line system which at traffic speed can simultaneously measures the nighttime retroreflective properties of road markings (lines) and of reflective pavement markings (RPMs) / road studs [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
