For mobility and infrastructure planner it is a challenging task to maximize the safety of vulnerable road users. The newest generation of microwave sensors from Icoms Detections can prove as the game-changing technology that makes it easier to protect susceptible road users from the risks they face at intersections.

While elaborating the risk faced by vulnerable road users Cécile Bauvin, Account Manager at Icoms Detections S.A. says “Vulnerable road users are defined as anything smaller than a motorcycle — cyclists, users of electric scooters, and in particular pedestrians — and, in the past, they have tended to be lumped together as a single homogeneous group. Often they have been provided with shared carriageway space.”

Size matters when there is conflict between road users, since size and relative mass matter greatly. For instance a small car equipped with most modern features is at greater risk if it unfortunately faces collision with a larger vehicle; similarly a pedestrian is likely to suffer the most in a collision with a bicycle. There have been numerous cases of negligent cyclists proving fatal to life of pedestrians in collisions.

Furthermore Cécile Bauvin states “The ability to better sub-divide and classify travellers according to mode — and, in particular, speed — helps to improve safety and increase efficiencies. Both mass transit and vulnerable road users can be given the leeways and capacities they need to make travel and infrastructure perform better in all respects.”

Icoms Detections, part of the IRD group, is a specialist in above-ground sensor technology for urban applications. These include intersection/traffic light monitoring and control, as well as an increasing number of solutions designed to detect, classify, monitor and protect vulnerable road users.

According to the team at Icoms Detections the steps traffic professionals can take today is providing the data which supports operational and planning decisions which is the key to a smarter future and Icoms has a successful record of adapting to meet local standards and conditions.

Icoms Detections team takes pride in a recent landmark for the implementation of solar-powered mobile detection systems in Preston, England. Similar technology is also about to be deployed on a wide scale in Belgium, France and the Netherlands.

About Icoms Detections:

In order to improve mobility and enhance safety on roads, https://icomsdetections.com has been designing and manufacturing sensors for road traffic management based on microwave technology since 1993, meeting the needs of intelligent transport systems (ITS). Since July 2017, the company has been the “radar” development hub of International Road Dynamics Inc. based in Saskatoon, Canada.

For more information on Icoms Detections’ traffic radar products for bicycle and pedestrian detection contact [email protected] or, in Europe, contact [email protected].

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