Serving Departments of Public Works
City, municipal, and county Departments of Public Works are under constant pressure to maintain clear, compliant pavement markings while operating in dense urban environments where traffic is fast-moving and lane closures are costly, disruptive, and often limited to short overnight windows.
Traditional methods like pavement stencils and thermoplastic preforms require crews to work on foot in active roadways to placing, align, and heat materials. Road workers are exposed to significant risks of injury from traffic, burns, toxic fumes and the lifting and carrying of equipment and materials.
Road workers are not the only ones feeling the effects of pavement marking. Road users become frustrated and annoyed when traffic slows down because of lane closures to maintain needed pavement markings. Road users become even more annoyed when pavement markings are missing or unreadable!
Public Works Departments can benefit from our robotic detail pavement marking system:
Road workers risks are greatly reduced
- Traffic injuries should be eliminated completely – the road worker stays in the truck cab during the entire operation
- No burns – there is nothing to heat up or to torch into the pavement
- No toxic fumes from passing traffic or super-heated marking materials
- No heat stroke – the truck cab is air conditioned
Road users are more satisfied
- The system is fast, turn arrows take about 3 minutes to lay out and paint so there is less time disruption to the traveling public
- A typical pavement marking road crew consists of 4 members. The robot replaces 3 members which allows them to perform other road work for the city or county
With our robotic detail pavement marking system, road crews are safer and get more done. That is a win for the Department of Public Works and those that they serve.
