Road traffic safety :

Refers to the methods and measures used to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. Typical road users include pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, vehicle passengers, horse riders, and passengers of on-road public transport (mainly buses and trams).

Best practices in modern road safety strategy:

The basic strategy of a Safe System approach is to ensure that in the event of a crash, the impact energies remain below the threshold likely to produce either death or serious injury. This threshold will vary from crash scenario to crash scenario, depending upon the level of protection offered to the road users involved. For example, the chances of survival for an unprotected pedestrian hit by a vehicle diminish rapidly at speeds greater than 30 km/h, whereas for a properly restrained motor vehicle occupant the critical impact speed is 50 km/h (for side impact crashes) and 70 km/h (for head-on crashes).

The standard measures used in assessing road safety interventions are fatalities and killed-or-seriously-injured (KSI) rates, usually expressed per billion (109) passenger kilometers. Countries using older road-safety paradigms replace KSI rates with crash rates – for example, crashes per million vehicle-miles.

For the purposes of road-traffic safety it can be helpful to classify roads into three usages:

Built-up urban streets with slower speeds, greater densities, and more diversity among road users
Non built-up rural roads with higher speeds
Major highways (motorways/ Interstates/ freeways/ Autobahns, etc.) reserved for motor-vehicles, and which are often designed to minimize and attenuate crashes
Most injuries occur on urban streets but most fatalities on rural roads, while motorways are the safest in relation to distance traveled. For example, in 2013, German autobahns carried 31% of motorized road traffic (in travel-kilometers) while accounting for 13% of Germany’s traffic deaths. The autobahn fatality-rate of 1.9 deaths per billion-travel-kilometers compared favorably with the 4.7 rate on urban streets and 6.6 rate on rural roads.

HISTORY:

Roadways originally carried all sorts of traffic indiscriminately – beasts of burden as well as pedestrians. Road behavior and rules have developed to prioritize certain types of traffic.

Important people traversing crowded streets and alleys in ancient Rome (famous for its Roman roads) deployed minions to clear the way for their litters or (if allowed) carts and chariots. Even the mighty preferred not to trample the bystanders.

In the 19th century the advent of powered vehicles inspired British road-safety law to impose speed limits and to require a person on foot carrying a red flag warning of the arrival of a frightening noisy mechanical contrivance.

Subsequently, motoring lobby-groups pressed for the priority of motorized traffic, and safety laws drove playing children off the streets and ghettoized the likes of walkers, bicycles, wheel-chairs and scooters to the margins. Concepts like shared space, living streets and woonerf developed to counter this paradigm.

WARNING SIGNS

WARNING SIGNS: are used to alert highway, street or road users to unexpected or dangerous conditions ahead that might call for a reduction of speed, situations that might not be readily apparent, or an action in the interest of safety and efficient traffic operations such as a curve, detour, sideroad, etc.

Warning signs are used to alert highway, street or road users to unexpected or dangerous conditions ahead that might call for a reduction of speed, situations that might not be readily apparent, or an action in the interest of safety and efficient traffic operations such as a curve, detour, sideroad, etc. They usually have a yellow or orange background with black symbols or letters on a diamond-shaped or rectangular sign. Yellow pennant-shaped signs caution motorists where passing is unsafe. Round yellow warning signs alert motorists that there’s a railroad crossing ahead.

Warning signs are made with the highest quality .080 aluminum, coated with the industries best 3M or Avery reflective sheeting and printed to last beyond the sheeting warranty.

Traffic Warning Signs
Object Markers
Railroad Signs
Crossing Signs

Dead End
Construction Signs
Speed Bump

Plastic traffic barricades:

Are more effective, safer and more stable than drums, posts, cones and other types of barricade. Our traffic barricades are visually more substantial and command the respect of drivers.

Our barricades can be noticed from a greater distance away and drivers can determine more quickly the traffic changes ahead.

The linear design makes a positive visual separation between vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians. Water or sand ballast can be added to ‘anchor’ barricades in place.

The unique stacking feature saves up to 80% in transportation, storage and handling costs.

Road Safety Mirrors

Are specifically designed to improve road safety at dangerous junctions, near concealed entrances and where a driver’s view is blocked by obstacles. They provide a wide angle view to drivers at strategic places on the road and enable them to make better driving decisions and so reduce road accidents.