Construction: Road studs

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Road studs provide most effective night guidance even under the most adverse weather conditions.

With increasing traffic volumes on our roads, improving and maintaining driver safety, in all scenarios, is a critical concern.

The worst case scenario is night time driving in adverse weather conditions. In this instance, the use of raised profile reflective roadstuds provides crucial driver guidance when other such markings are obliterated.  

Since it was first used in 1935, the reflective roadstud has been at the forefront of raising safety standards, with over 12 million units installed throughout the UK and a growing volume worldwide

There is a superb range of top quality, dynamically designed studs having excellent quality standards. The studs are visible and can also be heard and felt, due to the rumble when a vehicle crosses over them. Road Studs are available in different sizes to delineate the carriage way both at the center and at the edges of roads.

These are available in aluminum as well as in rigid ABS plastic. The special material composition enables the studs to bear severe impacts. The specific reflective panel of the studs provides very high reflectivity.

Utility & Applications:
Better traffic control by making lanes.

Convenient for the driver as it is very effective eye guide during night hours due to its high reflectivity.

Provides clear vision of sharp edges, humps and other hazards on the road well in advance.
 
▪ Center Lane Marking  ▪ Edge Lane Marking  ▪ Diversion of the Roads ▪ Pedestrian Zebra Crossings  ▪ Parking Zones  ▪ Speed Breakers ▪ Road Signal Junctions

Solar road studs
Solar road studs are flashing solar cell powered LED maintenance-free lighting devices used in road construction to delineate road edges and centrelines. Embedded in the road surface, they are an electronic improvement on the traditional cat's eyes in that they may give drivers more than a thirty-second reaction window compared with about 3 seconds for conventional reflective devices. The intense brightness of the LEDs makes them easily visible at distances of about 900m under favourable conditions.

Averaging about 100mm square or 100mm diameter and about 40mm thick, units are extremely robust to avoid damage by passing vehicles, and are normally constructed of engineering plastics and polycarbonates. Use of solar road studs reduces the necessity of headlight main beams and the accompanying hazard of dazzling oncoming drivers. They are also more visible in rain and fog conditions where the old type retroreflectors and road markings are problematic. The solar cells charge batteries or capacitors during sunlit hours, over which period the flashing LEDs are turned off by a photoswitch.

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