New technologies make their way into practically all aspects of our lives. In the cars it is easy to see the evolution, because it is being fast and constant, but it is also can be applied to infrastructure. To improve road safety, new DGT smart cones who want to help prevent accidents through improvements that we would hardly have thought of a decade ago.
The cone is one of the beacon elementssimpler and more effective of all The key is that they are mobile and low cost, so they can be placed anywhere to warn of danger. Although they also have some negative parts such as limited visibility. So the new smart devices they will give off some light flashes and, most importantly, they will be fully connected to notify the DGT Traffic Management Center of their position.
Presentation of the new #ConnectedCones to signal works in the #highway. They carry geolocation and emit light flashes. When they are installed and turned on, a traffic incident is automatically activated in the Traffic Management Center. #Traffic.#More securitypic.twitter.com/PuAIPHT11f
— Director General Traffic (@DGTes) October 24, 2022
This information will be shared in real time with the DGT 3.0 Platform and the National Access Point, which will allow drivers have information about the works where they are placed even before going through them through the information panels that are nearby. The objective is to improve the road safety of the highways and also ensure the welfare of workers. A first trial with smart cones has already been carried out in a Galician cycling event and the results were very positive.
From now on they will be used on more occasions, beginning with the latest surveillance and control campaign that focuses on works on interurban traffic routes. They will fulfill their mission of ordering the traffic, adapting it to the new circumstances of the road and also of the signaling so that the driver is aware of the changes. In the long run, you want reduce the 158 traffic accidents that were related to the works in 2021. Above all, the 17 that involved the operators who worked on them.
This novelty of smart and connected cones is an action that is in line with the Spanish Road Safety Strategy 2030. Through it, the DGT intends to promote design solutions and infrastructure security management procedures in the coming years.
