Community Associations (CAI) Tradeshow Next Week

Traffic Logix will be exhibiting next week at the 2016 CAI Annual Conference & Exposition. The premiere event for community associations, the CAI conference attracts community managers and association board members from around the world.

The Conference will take place in Orlando, FL from May 4-7. With great networking opportunities, creative learning sessions, and an array of products and solutions, it's the best event for small communities looking to thrive.

Traffic Logix will be exhibiting our safety solutions in booth 829 including the:

• SafePace 100 entry-level radar speed sign, our most popular solution on association roads
• SafePace 650 compact variable messaging sign that lets you display messages based on driver behavior
• Rubber speed cushions that slow cars down without affecting emergency vehicles

Want to learn more about the Traffic Logix line of traffic calming solutions?

Visit us at www.trafficlogix.com.

Traffic Logix will be exhibiting at the Texas Safety Conference & Expo

Traffic Logix will be exhibiting at the Texas Safety Conference & Expo next week in San Antonio. The annual event offers Texas safety professionals opportunities to network, learn, and keep abreast of trends and emerging solutions in the industry.

The Conference & Expo will take place from March 20-22 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX.

You’ll find Traffic Logix in booth #729 where we’ll be exhibiting our innovative solution for safer roads including:

*  Recycled rubber speed cushions designed to slow cars while letting emergency vehicles pass

*  SafePace 450 lightweight your speed sign to alert drivers to their speeds

*  The new SafePace Cloud for remote sign management, traffic data capture, and valuable analysis

Questions about our products?

Visit us at www.trafficlogix.com or contact us at info@trafficlogix.com or 866-915-6449.

Back to School Safety

As students across the country head back to the classroom, how can we ensure that they can get there- and back home- safely?

Active transportation such as bicycling and walking to school is increasing but is safety?

Learn about the challenges to school safety and why traffic calming solutions such as flashing beacons, radar signs,and speed cushions may be the crucial first step every city should consider before education, encouragement, or enforcement can be effective. Read our August Traffic Calmer and help your school have a safer year. What you read may just help save a life.

Single Source

If you do an internet search for radar speed signs, you'll find hundreds of entries. Search for speed humps and you'll find another extensive list. Bike lane curbing? School zone beacons? Speed cushions? You can find a company to provide each of your traffic calming solutions, but how many can you find that can offer you all of them?

Finding companies that offer each of the solutions you need and comparing the pros and cons of each can be  time-consuming and confusing. How can you be sure what's right for your roads when each company is pushing its own solutions as best?

Learn how to outfit your roads with the traffic calming solutions you need without finding an individual provider for each. Learn more in our June Traffic Calmer newsletter.

How far can your money take you?

We're all familiar with the ubiquitous MasterCard slogan: there's some things money can't buy, for everything else.... Those elusive things that money can't buy can indeed be those that don't entail payment or they can merely be those that are beyond your budget. Thankfully, we're here to help make sure that traffic calming and safer streets are not on your list of things money can't buy.

With a range of affordable options, budget-conscious solutions, and the benefit of saving lives every day, our radar signs and rubber solutions offer what you need at a price you can afford, for safer roads. While our products come with a competitive price tag, the lives you save with them are indeed priceless.

To learn which solutions are most cost-effective and how you can create safer streets within your budget, check out our April Traffic Calmer and learn how to protect your resident for the right price.

Be Careful, It's Raining! When Are You Most at Risk on the Roads?

We've all heard that refrain and variations of it dozens of times.

"Be careful driving, it's slippery out when it rains."

"The snow's coming down hard, stay alert out there."

"It's dark out, pay attention to the roads."

Of course, those statements are all true. When it's raining, snowing, sleeting, or dark out, you should certainly stay alert and drive slowly and carefully.

But what about when it's the middle of the day, it's dry out, and the sun is shining? No need to be cautious then, right?

Think again.

NHTSA statistics show that surprisingly, most accidents happen during the daylight hours in normal weather conditions. In 2010 (the most recent year with data available), there were nearly 15,000 road fatalities in daytime under normal weather conditions. In contrast, there were around 2,000 in the rain both during the day and night and around 750 in the snow including day and night hours.

Why is driving in perfectly bright weather conditions on roads that aren't slippery or wet dangerous?

Perhaps because people tend to let their guard down and assume they don't need to be particularly alert when there are no weather or lighting issues affecting the roads.

It's during these hours that traffic calming is the most important. Speed trailers, radar signs, or flashing beacons are all effective in reminding drivers to focus on the roads, even when there is no apparent danger. Speed humps, tables, and cushions compel drivers to slow down and save lives in the process.

When everything seems fine and drivers forget to focus on the roads, traffic calming makes sure they drive safely. Radar signs or speed humps on your roads can help avoid accidents before they happen.

Keeping Score

In Spokane, WA, a workshop was held earlier this week to instruct residents on how to apply for traffic calming measures on their streets. The funds to be used for the program come from the city's red-light enforcement program and include $140,000 for each city council district in the coming year.

Traffic Logix Rubber Speed Cushions

Neighborhoods need to rate their projects so that the ones with highest need are given funding priority. Four main categories are analyzed when assessing which projects should be funded: traffic volume, vehicle speeds, pedestrian activity, and the number of collisions.

Conducting such thorough traffic studies ensure that traffic calming solutions are installed where they're needed most instead of where residents are the most outspoken. Often, residents will overestimate the speeds of cars or number of pedestrians.

For more information on creating a point system for installing traffic calming solutions, visit the Traffic Logix Guide to Developing a Traffic Calming Program.

Why are Rubber Speed Cushions our Most Popular Rubber Solution?

With the recent installation of our rubber speed cushions in Anaheim, CA, we thought it was a good time to explain why so many cities choose speed cushions (or as they are sometimes called, speed lumps) over the more traditional speed humps or speed tables.

Speed cushions are basically constructed as a series of small speed humps installed across the road. With Traffic Logix interlocking units, you can even construct them to be more like small speed tables with flat tops. So what's all the excitement about them?

The main reason engineers like speed cushions so much is because unlike their full-road counterparts, they allow emergency vehicles such as fire trucks or ambulances to straddle them without affecting emergency response times. They are placed on the roadway at intervals that allow the width of such vehicles to drive over the cushions while ordinary vehicles have to slow down to drive over them.

Another aspect of speed lumps that attracts cities is that they cost less than speed humps or tables because they require less material to construct. With rubber solutions which are charged per unit, this can equal a significant savings.

The one drawback of speed cushions is that they can be difficult to construct of asphalt or concrete since each speed cushion needs to be exactly the same size for ease of driving and for driver acceptance. This can be avoided with rubber cushions, which are premolded and can ensure uniformity from cushion to cushion.