Worker safety is enhanced since the operator can select a safe location that gives a clear view of all aspects of the work zone. These rugged, simple-to-operate Automated Flagger Assistance Devices ...
For a highway construction worker, focusing on the job is easier when someone is watching your back. On many roads, that person is the flagger, whose stop/slow sign helps maintain a peaceful, safe ...
The in basket: Tom White of Tracyton set me a photograph of an alternative to human highway flaggers and said, “I was driving through Scottsdale, Arizona, recently and came across these automated ...
1:57 Technology may replace flag people in highway construction zones SASKATOON – When a flag person was injured on a Saskatchewan highway last August, his employer decided it was time to change the ...
IntelliStrobe's W1-AG Automated Flagger Assistance Device (AFAD) keeps road workers safe by directing drivers when it's safe or unsafe to enter a work zone IntelliStrobe's W1-AG Automated Flagger ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The diamond-shaped orange caution signs as you approach them still show a silhouette of a human worker holding a flag, and maybe they always will. But increasingly, the ...
In an effort to improve the safety on Saskatchewan highways, the province is expanding the use of the Automated Flagger Assistance Device (AFAD). How effective it will be remains to be seen, says ...
Green Mountain Traffic Control won the 2020 Best Builder Award from Associated General Contractors of Vermont for its ingenuity in deploying automated flaggers during the pandemic. At the outset of ...
WASHINGTON — Maryland highway officials will soon test new technology to lower the risk to human flagging crews in road work zones. Rather than have a person with a long pole with “Stop” and “Slow” ...
The Saskatchewan government has released a video that shows not all drivers are obeying automated flaggers. According to a government official, crews from the Highways Ministry went to shoot a video ...