Air Quality & Weather Systems

French technology group Lacroix has recently made two strategic acquisitions, enabling it to expand its international presence, to develop in the smart cities sector and to capitalise on new growth areas. The acquisition of Spanish company DSTA enabled Lacroix to expand its offering in variable message signs, traffic signals and public transport information panels, making it more competitive while providing its customers with proven end-to-end technological solutions. By acquiring SOGEXI, the French s

The Ohio State Highway Patrol (OHSP) and the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) are to partner in traffic safety initiative in a bid to change driver behaviour and reverse the upward trend of traffic deaths in the state, which has recorded 76 more deaths in the period to June 2015 than in the same period last year. The initiative will use the 130 ODOT digital message boards visible above highways across the state and will rotate between the year-to-date number of traffic deaths of 2015 and traffic

The electronic highway signage system and field devices that provide real-time travel information for the 300,000 daily users of New York’s George Washington Bridge are to undergo a major overhaul in a US$65.1 millio0n project. The Port Authority of New York has approved the project to replace the intelligent transportation system (ITS) which includes the upgrade and replacement of 11 existing variable message signs and the installation of seven new ones; the installation of a new overhead sign structure

The Florida Department of Transportation has added SES America’s single line, full colour embedded digital message sign (DMS) to its list of TERL-approved products. Designed for installation on highway projects, the embedded DMS can display standard characters in both 300mm and 460mm heights in a variety of Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Displays-compliant colours and is suitable for applications including variable toll rates

With a measuring frequency of 100 values per second, the Marwis mobile road weather sensor from Lufft is suitable for use by meteorological services, airports, road administrations, civil services and municipalities.

Since many early generation variable message signs (VMS) are now reaching end of life and are either failing completely or becoming extremely difficult to maintain, Swarco Traffic has launched a new service to repair and renovate life expired VMS.

Lacroix Trafic’s Steve Collins believes the improving trends in road safety could go into reverse unless authorities make full use of the latest LED technology to meet drivers’ information needs. Road authorities and vehicles manufacturers could and should be far more active in countering some of the transportation industry’s major problems, according to Steve Collins export sales director at Lacroix Trafic.