Traffic

Traffic Safety

Enhancing Road Safety

The Lifesaving Potential of Variable Message Signs

Variable message signs can save lives by providing real-time information to drivers about changing road conditions, hazards, accidents, and other critical information. These signs allow authorities to communicate urgent messages instantly, enabling drivers to make informed decisions and take appropriate actions to avoid dangerous situations. Whether warning of upcoming accidents, suggesting alternate routes during traffic congestion, or alerting drivers to adverse weather conditions, variable message signs enhance road safety by reducing confusion and improving driver awareness, ultimately preventing accidents and potentially life-threatening situations.

Why a Triplesign?

Many of these situations do not require a large variety of messages, making the Triplesign the deal solution. The low cost of the Triplesign means that more warning points can be implemented. With solar power, these points can be placed exactly where needed.

The Reliable Triplesign

- Always displays a message

Where an LED sign will stop displaying messages during a power outage, a Triplesign will always display a message A Triplesign is immune to a power outage due to the battery and solar solution. The low power consumption of the Triplesign also means that there is minimal cost to power the sign. An LED VMS consumes considerably more power to display the same message and is therefore much more expensive. As the size of the sign increases, the costs for power consumption of an LED VMS will increase linearly, while the costs for a Triplesign VMS will remain the same.

70 to 90% lower cost compared to LED enables wide scale affordable traffic information.

The affordable standalone wireless Triplesign Solar is independent of cable connections. This means it can be placed anywhere, ensuring traffic safety information can be placed exactly where needed. Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR) systems used in cars cannot always recognize text as well as symbols. Using a VMS with a symbol message is safer than one with lengthy text.

A Triplesign VMS can be activated by sensors warning the road user. For instance, slippery road, reduced speed, approaching train at unattended railway crossing, heavy vehicle at construction site entrance/exit.

Future Proof

The Triplesign VMS is future proof

With Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) emerging, Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR) technology is used by various car suppliers. Research has shown that a continuous (prismatic) VMS has better readability than discontinued VMS (LED), because flickering in the LED VMS makes it difficult to read. To improve the readability of LED VMS you need even more power.

Another issue is that a very quick change of message can be missed by the TSR system, which in general reads symbols better than text.

The Triplesign VMS constantly displays a clear message making it compatible with the TSR technology.