“Seeing is Surviving” This title is so true and appropriate that if we can make the roads more visible, accident rates can be reduced.

The “Traffic Technology International” magazine (March 2010) has highlighted our solar markers in their latest issue targeted for the big show of “Intertraffic Amsterdam 2010”. http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/9009c6af#/9009c6af/20

THE LUNA LANDING
And it’s not just white lines that can make a difference to safety, as Richard Sabga director of Sustainable Development with USA-based Luna Road can testify. The company specializes in the design, manufacture and supply of solar-powered illumination technologies and has enjoyed a run of high-profile contracts over the past 12 months. In the Caribbean country of Trinidad, for instance, automotive fatality rates are particularly high. In a country of just 1.2 million people, 200 people die on the roads each year. In fact, one stretch of road in the capital’s Port of Spain, at only 2,000ft in length, registers a staggering 60 deaths a year. “This was a killer stretch of road with a very high mortality rate,” Sagba says. “We were approached by the director of highways for Port of Spain, who was keen to make the road safer. We installed 200 of our solar-powered units 30ft apart and down three lines of the two-lane stretch.” Since the installation of Luna Road’s solar studs, deaths on this stretch of highway have fallen from 60 a year to just four – a 90% fall. “And these deaths occurred during the daytime!” Sabga stresses. “The benefit of this technology is that unlike streetlighting – which only provides a localized ambient glow – you can see the layout of the road from a long distance without relying on your headlights, which provides more visual information for the driver.” In terms of product development, in place of its existing polycarbonate covers, Luna Road is working on a brand new selfcleaning, photocatalytic material that will allow ultraviolet penetration, yet will not discolor in the sun after two or three years.

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Traffic Technology International, launched in 1994, is the leading magazine in the advanced traffic management field. Renowned for its peerless editorial quality and stunning design, Traffic Technology International won the prestigious 'Periodical Publishers Association's International Business-to-Business Magazine of the Year' award in May 2000. A must-read for all traffic authorities.

LEDs magazine has covered our recent deployment in Panama City's brand new Coastal Beltway or Cinta Costera. This new stretch of road was to help decongest the busy road network of Panama City by providing a bypass route past the city.

The 6 lanes road takes approxmately 72,000 vehicles per day!

Read more about it on LEDs Magazine, Traffic Technology Today, roadtraffic-technology.com and more photos here.