Florida Highway Patrol trials text alert system for wrong-way driving

November 7, 2016 Read time: 1 min

Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) in the US has implemented a test message instant-alert system as part of the off-ramp detection system in place on 24 exits Expressway Authority-operated highways SR 408 and SR 417.

The detection system uses high-intensity flashing lights to warn drivers that they have entered the highway going the wrong way. If the driver continues onto the highway, cameras capture an image of the vehicle and alert law enforcement in order to dispatch patrols to the area.

All FHP supervisors and dispatchers now receive a text message within three seconds of the detection of a wrong-way driver, enabling them to monitor the cameras and dispatch a patrol more quickly.

UTC

Safeguarding cities against wrong-way drivers

Thermal imaging and artificial intelligence analytics provide the best path towards preventing deadly auto accidents, explains Stefaan Pinck of Flir

Wrong-way driver never took a test enforcement technology

June 6, 2018

Wrong-Way Alerting solution from Image Sensing Systems

January 31, 2012

Wrong Way Detection System prevents accidents, improves safety

In 2006, within a span of four months, two incidents of drivers entering the 16km-long Westpark Tollway in Houston, Texas resulted in horrific accidents that caused a number of fatalities. As a result, Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA) began investigating technologies that could help detect vehicles entering the tollway in the wrong direction.