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Celebrating 50 years of transportation safety leadership and innovation, RoadVista has set the standard in retroreflectometer accuracy, reliability, and usability. RoadVista is committed to making roads visibly safer with a complete selection of instruments and laboratory testing services for roadways visibility. RoadVista offers accurate, easy, safe, and cost-effective testing solutions for traffic signs, pavement markings, sign sheeting and high visibility clothing both for humans and CAVs
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1/01/2024
How to Use a Handheld Pavement Marking Retroreflectometer
Eric Nelson
With the recent updates to the MUTCD requiring monitoring and maintaining minimum retroreflectivity values for pavement markings, there is a renewed interest in retroreflectometers to help comply with the rule. Retroreflectometers are simple to use, but it does require some understanding to ensure that you are operating the equipment correctly and obtaining useful and relevant data.
Tag: retroreflectivity, retroreflectometer, CAV, ADAS
2/01/2018
Driving Blind
Eric Nelson
It’s well known in the autonomous vehicle industry that poor quality road markings are a hindrance to the development of AVs. This article gives a short overview to the keys of good quality road markings and gives an overview of the Laserlux G7 product, how it can be used for AV development, and how it can be implemented into a roadway maintenance program.
The Laserlux G7 instrument provides a fast way to evaluate the performance of road markings, both in the visible and infrared. It’s simple to set up and operate, adapting to almost any vehicle with no custom modifications required. The system attaches to a vehicle via the Squid Mount™ vacuum mounting system and is operated wirelessly from any Wi-Fi enabled laptop, tablet, or smartphone. The system evaluates the visibility of road lines and records the data in tabular format. Additionally, the system automatically generates color-coded maps and records high-definition videos of the roadway with data overlay to make it easy to quickly determine areas of poor performance. This quantitative data correlates with both traditional pavement marking evaluations and confidence level systems used by many automotive sensors. Implementation of the Laserlux G7 makes it cheaper and easier to maintain good quality road markings, which allows for more prolific and safer AV vehicle operation.
The Laserlux G7 instrument provides a fast way to evaluate the performance of road markings, both in the visible and infrared. It’s simple to set up and operate, adapting to almost any vehicle with no custom modifications required. The system attaches to a vehicle via the Squid Mount™ vacuum mounting system and is operated wirelessly from any Wi-Fi enabled laptop, tablet, or smartphone. The system evaluates the visibility of road lines and records the data in tabular format. Additionally, the system automatically generates color-coded maps and records high-definition videos of the roadway with data overlay to make it easy to quickly determine areas of poor performance. This quantitative data correlates with both traditional pavement marking evaluations and confidence level systems used by many automotive sensors. Implementation of the Laserlux G7 makes it cheaper and easier to maintain good quality road markings, which allows for more prolific and safer AV vehicle operation.
Tag: retroreflectivity, autonomous vehicles, infrastructure, road markings, pavement markings, road lines,
Innovations
Laserlux G7 Mobile Retroreflectometer
RoadVista
The world's first mobile retroreflectometer that is completely vehicle independent, requires no vehicle modifications, and can be easily mounted on most any vehicle within minutes. Features: *Retroreflectivity measurements *Counts of RRPM’s (road studs) for visibility/presence *Measures the night-time yellow and white colour for compliance with CEN and ASTM standards. *Auto-level and calibration
RoadVista
The world's first mobile retroreflectometer that is completely vehicle independent, requires no vehicle modifications, and can be easily mounted on most any vehicle within minutes. Features: *Retroreflectivity measurements *Counts of RRPM’s (road studs) for visibility/presence *Measures the night-time yellow and white colour for compliance with CEN and ASTM standards. *Auto-level and calibration
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922 Handheld Retroreflectometer
Handheld Retroreflectometer for signs
Handheld Retroreflectometer for signs
Ensures a cost effective, safe, and absolute means of meeting the minimum retroreflectivity requirements for traffic signs. Different versions are available for ASTM E1709, E2540, and EN 12899-1 compliance. Reliable and field-proven, the platform delivers a simple, economical solution for improving and maintaining roadway safety by providing a zero-error means of assessing reflectivity data and inventory management control.
Laserlux G7 Mobile Retroreflector
Portable vehicle mounted retroreflectometer
Portable vehicle mounted retroreflectometer
The Laserlux G7 Mobile Retroreflectometer quickly and securely mounts to almost any vehicle with the Squid Mount™ vacuum mount system providing easy adaptability into existing resources without significant extra costs, both stand-alone as a single device, or in tandem with two instruments mounted to either side of the vehicle for full lane measurements. Assessment of retroreflectivity in both the visible and infrared spectrum create safer roads for both human and machine vision for autonomous vehicles.
932 Handheld Retroreflectometer
for signs, safety clothing, and other materials
for signs, safety clothing, and other materials
The handheld retroreflectometer is designed for use in the field, laboratory, or QA/QC environment. It is designed to fully characterize the retroreflection (RA) and retroreflected night-time (CIE1931xy) color of road signs, high visibility safety clothing, number plates and other materials. Additionally, RoadVista offers the 932IR-Vision which measures infrared retroreflection at the common LIDAR wavelengths for automated vehicle sensors.
StripeMaster 3 Retroreflectometer
Pavement Marking Retroreflectometer
Pavement Marking Retroreflectometer
The next generation of the successful and proven StripeMaster retroreflectometer platform, this all-in-one pavement marking asset management system measures road marking retroreflection, daytime visibility (Qd), night-time colour (CIE1931xy) and automatically saves key data. It provides quick and easy measurement of pavement markings of RL per ASTM E1710 and EN 1436 utilizing the CEN 30-meter geometry. Measurement of CIE1931xy chromaticity coordinates ensure compliance with EN1436 and ASTM D6628 color boxes