Detecting jams to improve safety

Portable LED traffic-jam detection systems help to improve safety around work zones by preventing dangerous rear-end collisions, as well as improving traffic flows

Words | Adem Bogocli, CEO, Ibotech GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Traffic density is increasing all around the world. This creates safety problems, which are particularly intensified around construction sites. In these areas there is an even higher risk of crashes, every one of which has a high cost associated, both directly and in terms of knock-on impacts on traffic flow.

To help to improve road safety around work zones, mobile traffic signs and temporary traffic management systems can be installed, which can give early congestion warnings. Early traffic jam detection is very important due to the danger of serious accidents and rear-end collisions.

With the modern and innovative traffic jam detection system by Ibotech and partner company Ibomade, traffic can react quickly, speed can be reduced and dangerous rear-end collisions prevented.

Besides improving safety the traffic jam warning system also gives useful information about congestion, which means drivers can be given the opportunity to change their route, thereby avoiding delay.

The innovative Ibomade LED traffic jam detection system has many advantages, for example a quick data transfer and excellent visibility and dependability. What makes the traffic jam detection system unique is the energy self-sufficiency as it is solarpowered, making regularly battery replacement a thing of the past.

Above: Upgrading LED installations for driver warning and safety

Upgrading existing installations

With installations becoming eversmarter, Ibomade recently upgraded an already-installed mobile congestion warning system with traffic data recording, on the A3 autobahn between Straubing and Regensburg in Germany, so that it can now also improve route safety.

The process involved updating nearly 20 displays, so that the system reacting to the traffic flow displays not only congestion warnings but also a ban on overtaking, and speed limits, when and where it is appropriate.

The project has been in a testing phase since July 2021. This unconventional and costeffective approach is a first for Bavaria and, due to its success, it is now likely that similar upgrades will also be deployed in other areas.

A road to the future

The mobile LED traffic jam detection system continuously collects data related to the current traffic situation. Within a split second, the data is processed and sent to the relevant location and system. In this way, it is possible to detect traffic jams early, in a dependable way. This increases safety for traffic moving through potentially dangerous situations.

With the portable traffic jam warning system, Ibotech is trailblazing a new path towards the future of intelligent traffic management – with innovative technology and energy selfsufficiency. Even though traffic jams cannot be avoided, drivers can be warned and rerouted - and safety can be improved. ■