Benefits For Motorists
Benefits
- Can help to minimize salt/sand usage during winter road maintenance practices. This would result in both an increase in cost-efficiency and environmental protection.
- Can provide a visual cue to maintenance staff as to the temperature of the road surface.
- Cost effective alternative to other more expensive options such as embedded electronic and portable sensors.
- Provides continuous real-time monitoring and advanced warning of potentially dangerous driving conditions.
- Easy to install.
- Easy to maintain.
- Easily noticed and interpreted by motorists.
- Can assist to serve as an indicator of road surface condition to both motorists and maintenance staff.
- Potential use in parking lots, sidewalks, etc. to spell words to warn pedestrians of possible icy conditions.