Friday 26 February 2016

The New Age Traffic Devices

A Brief on Traffic Safety:
 
With the no of road mishaps increasing manifold and many of us being victims of accidents, almost often the road rules keep changing. There are loads of traffic friendly equipment and technologies being installed on the roads to ensure the safety of the drivers and foot walkers as well.

Signalized crossing, intelligent traffic equipment and devices and signal controllers are quite common these days. At this juncture, the companies manufacturing these road safety equipments are in a sortrace to manufacture the best and there are mor innovative products coming up almost everyday.


A Look into the LED Pedestrian Lights:

A LED pedestrian light can be found installed at every signalized crossing to ensure the safety of the pedestrians. There's no doubt in the fact that while controlling and maintaining pedestrian traffic, there's no room for error. A small mistake in synchronizing the movement of people and automobiles can lead to a big mishap.

In this regard, the introduction of LED pedestrian lights is a commendable approach to ensure the safety of the road bearers. These LED lights provide upto 90% energy saving and are quite easy to install. They are available in a LED or an incandescent look or a more advanced unit with digital display. They are quite affordable and require less maintenance.


Let us know about Intelligent Traffic Controllers:

The intelligent traffic controllers are of great use in a situation of non-recurrent road congestion. The equipment can be put to quite innovative uses. During a situation involving serious road congestion, the traffic operator has to chalk out quick decisions to manage the traffic network. The intelligent traffic control system includes an adaptive traffic signal control algorithm to react fast to complex traffic situations.


What are Traffic Signal Controllers:

The traffic engineers have designed yet another traffic control device which can perform very reliably in demanding traffic situations. The traffic signal controllers are embedded with microprocessor technology to perform effectively and smartly in risky situations and control the traffic to ensure safety. They are being manufactured by traffic equipment companies keeping in mind the various requisites of the road.

Almost every signal controller is field tested and designed to be exquisitely flexible with they demanding situation. They are configured to manage very simple and quite complex intersections in traffic.They are so designed as to perform both in stand-alone mode and while integrated. They are also designed to work at timesy of fallback like communication failure.

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