The Use of Traffic Cones and Lane Separator

When you are driving, you can always see the traffic cones and lane separators in the roadside. Do you know what are the use of them?

Generally, traffic cones are used in construction or damaged places on streets for road safety. They are designed to help you see what has happened on the road to help you keep yourself from getting in accidents, particularly when the road is being repaired. They can be used to keep parking space or area instead of parking space lock.

Nowadays, the traffic cones are usually made of PVC materials. The PVC cones have advantages of environmental protection and long life span.

The cones are are normally colored fluorescent orange and white. Those colors are used simply because they offer higher visibility. Sometimes, the white part is replaced with reflective film to improve the visibility in night. In some countries, the cones are equipped with led flashing lights in the head to improve the safety.

Lane separator is a special road safety product, which consists of rubber base, reflective film and flexible plastic flag. It is mainly placed along road sides or edges of the middle line to indicate the direction of the road and prevent the traffic hazards such as creasing etc. Since the flag with reflective film is just facing the drive direction of the vehicle, so it can be easily caught by drivers in night and rainy days.

The flag is made of high elasticity engineering plastic which can be quickly restitution after vehicle collision.

Cast Aluminum Road Studs Installation Tips

There are two type of Aluminum road studs: Full cast aluminum and shell cast aluminum. Full cast aluminum road stud is completely made of aluminum for high compressive strength. It is generally used in the double yellow lines of the road. Shell cast aluminum road stud means only the shell is cast aluminum and the insider will be filled with sand or any other materials. The compressive strength is lower than full cast aluminum, but the price is much cheaper.

Aluminum road reflectors with glass beads are widely used in the middle east area. The installation of aluminum road studs is not complex, but there are many details that matter the usage life of the studs.

Before installation, the most important thing is to place the construction signs. No matter the road is in construction or in use.

Then determine the installation location, make sure the installation position is smooth. Otherwise, the uneven stress will break the studs in a few weeks.

Then use a brush to clean the road to ensure the installation location is clean and dry enough. These matter the firmness of the aluminum road reflectors. If the road is not clean, the dust will disturb the glue adhesion.

Evenly put appropriate amount of glue on the road studs. No more or less
Press the road studs firmly at the mounting location and ensure that the direction is correct.

If the studs have anchor, dig a hole which is 1 cm deeper than the anchor. The diameter of the hole also need to be 2mm wider than the anchor.


After the installation is complete, check all the road studs in two hours to see whether they are installed correctly. Four hours after the installation, remove the construction signs.

8 Quick Tips About Guardrail Installation

Before installation:

1. Review the guardrail plans

Before guardrail installation, check the guardrail plans. Make sure the current standard road plans match the date listed in the project plans.

2. Guardrail Beam Check

Check the guardrail beam specification such as two wave guardrails. Make sure the guardrail match your country's standard.

3. Guardrail Accessories Check

Check whether the bolts and nuts match the guardrails beam. Make sure the posts and spacer blocks match the guardrail beam, also check whether they are galvanized.

4. Installation Location Related Checks

Make sure the installation line is correctly located for the type of guardrail, w-beam, thrie-beam, or cable. The offset distances must be correct for face of guardrail location from the installation line.

When installing:

5. Guardrail Installation Machine Check:

Make sure the guardrail pile driver works properly.

6. The Guardrail Location Check

Are posts and guardrail located correctly? The rail/cable height need to be according to height specified in the Standard Road Plans. (ie: 31 inches for w-beam and 32 inches for thrie-beam). Make sure the post spaced correctly.

7. Guardrail Post Plumb Check

The guardrail posts need to be reasonably plumb. So when using guardrail pile drivers, make sure the hammer accurate match the post shape. (Such as C channel post and round channel post).

8. Traffic Marker Related Checks

You also need to check whether the object markers, delineators, and associated hardware installed correctly?

Think Doing Traffic Equipment Business? Read This Article!

It is well known that traffic accidents are of high importance to the public health spectrum around the world. Statistics show that far more people are injured or die in traffic accidents than are afflicted by any of the most serious diseases. So a variety of traffic safety equipment take place in preventing traffic accidents.

Guardrails

Guardrails are mainly installed in highway and secondary road to prevent the vehicle from running out of the road. The most common type of guardrails are W beam galvanized guardrails.

Reflective Road Marking

Road marking with reflective glass beads is another way for road traffic safety. When a car's headline beam shines on a striping which integrates glass beads, the striping seems to light up and gets much better visible at night. It is an effective method to prevent night traffic accidents.

Road Studs

Like reflective road marking, the road studs with reflectors is also an important part of road traffic safety. In nighttime, it is necessary to provide the guide for drivers along dark roads. Some new design of cat's eye also uses LEDs which flash at about 100 times per second.

Speed Bumps

As a method for lowering the speed of motor vehicles along specific street sections, speed bumps and speed humps are widely used in residential streets and parking lots etc.

Traffic Cones

Traffic cones are typically used outdoors during road work or other situations requiring traffic redirection or advance warning of hazards or dangers, or the prevention of traffic. Traffic cones with reflective film is a great method to increase visibility for night use or low-light situations. On occasion, traffic cones may also be fitted with flashing lights for the same reason.

Safety Vest

Safety Vests are mainly used by road maintenance workers. The safety vests have reflective film which can be highly visible in low-light situations and catch the drivers' attention. Some countries require that the drivers must have reflective safety vests in their vehicles.

Convex Mirrors

Acrylic convex traffic mirrors can provide more than 160-degree viewing angle to help reduce traffic accidents in curves, cross roads and etc.

About Roadsky Traffic Safety

Nanjing Roadsky Traffic Facility Co., Ltd. is professional traffic safety facilities manufacturer in China specialized in highway safety, road marking, road safety and parking safety. Products include Guardrails, Guardrail Installation Machines, Road Marking Machines and Paint, Road Studs, Traffic Signs, Traffic Lighting, Traffic Cone, Speed Hump etc.