Pedestrian Safety Upgrade to City Traffic Lights
Pedestrians will be safer in Bendigo’s central business district with this week’s installation of Vivacity LED Safety Tactiles by the team at OmniGrip Direct. Following installations in Melbourne and Trafalgar in Victoria, and Dunedin in New Zealand, the Bendigo installation is the first in one…
Reducing Death and Injury on Regional Roads
The Australian and Victorian governments are trialling innovative new technologies to help reduce death and injury on regional roads in Victoria. In a first for regional Victoria, LED tactile pavings will be installed at pedestrian crossings in Bendigo and Trafalgar, with trials of glow-in-the-dark line…
Is your surface genuine OmniGrip?
OmniGrip Direct will now advise Councils, asset managers and developers whether their contractors have purchased genuine OmniGrip Direct materials to use on their projects. When a Council, asset manager or developer’s architect or designer specifies one of OmniGrip Direct‘s products on its project, it’s because…
Road Safety Professionals Dazzled with Innovation
In May 2021, SmarterLite Group’s Chief Technology Officer Zoran Ovuka, was one of only four invited speakers on the topic of innovation in road safety at Roads Australia’s Spotlight on Safety forum in Brisbane, Queensland. With presentations by Neil Scales OBE, Director General, Department of…
Fix Blackspots in Federal Government ‘use it or lose it’ road funding
Victoria’s first allocation from the Federal Government’s $2 billion national road safety fund is set to run out in June 2021 in a ‘use it or lose it’ funding model. The funding – offered in three tranches over 18 months – puts a premium on…
Guide to reducing road crashes and injuries with HFST
There’s something missing from the toolbox of road managers and road safety practitioners in Australia. A quick and easily applied solution that will keep all types of vehicles on the road, reducing crashes, injuries and deaths in high risk and Black Spot locations. It’s widely…
10 Steps to Select and Specify Surfaces
Selecting and specifying surfaces for a road, path or building is an important decision that is often overlooked. A traffic engineer or road safety engineer may want a coloured bike lane, bus lane or pedestrian crossing, but leaves it to others to prepare the documentation….
Road Safety Innovations
In August 2020, Safety Path, Vivacity and OmniGrip Direct were invited by the Municipal Works Operations Association (MWOA) to present on road safety innovations. The MWOA is a not-for-profit member-based association that was established to serve professionals involved in all aspects of municipal works. OmniGrip…
Road Safety Innovation Fund Grant for Safety Path
Road signs and road line marking that are easier to see in the dark, will be an outcome of an Australian Government grant to innovative Victorian company SmarterLite. SmarterLite’s Safety Path Division was one of only four companies to receive an innovation grant from Round…
Recycled First for major transport infrastructure
In March 2020 the Victorian State Government announced its Recycled First policy to boost the use of recycled and reused materials in construction projects. Consultants and contractors designing and constructing major transport infrastructure projects in Victoria should be increasing their use of recycled materials to…
SmarterLite featured in Highway Engineering Australia
National trade publication Highway Engineering Australia featured SmarterLite and its divisions in its May/June 2020 issue. The feature showcases some key products from the SmarterLite group’s Safety Path, Vivacity and OmniGrip Direct divisions and how they apply to the road sector. Dave Jones, Director External…
Specialist surfaces add value for AAPA members
OmniGrip Direct’s specialist surfacings and innovative road safety solutions have been featured in a podcast by the Australian Asphalt Pavement Association (AAPA). The podcast discusses how OmniGrip Direct’s surfaces add value to contractors, road agencies and Councils. AAPA is the peak body representing the flexible…
5 Shovel-Ready Projects for Stimulus Packages
Post COVID-19 economic stimulus will come from local, state and the Australian Governments and major businesses spending to accelerate the delivery of maintenance and projects. Compared to complex mega-projects, shovel-ready small and medium size projects delivered across a large area will ensure that projects are…
Plain lane transformed in placemaking project
Glen Eira City Council’s Activity Centre, Housing and Local Economy Strategy has an objective to bring out the unique identity of Glen Eira’s neighbourhoods. The Strategy notes that the individuality of the neighbourhoods relates to the buildings, public spaces, people and culture. Council’s placemaking objectives…
Skid Resistant Pavement Marking
One of Australia’s leading road safety consultancies, Safe System Solutions, has recommended that OmniGrip CST be considered as a skid resistant pavement marking to reduce the loss of friction between tyres and the road surface. This is because large areas of paint-based pavement markings can…
Report finds LED Safety Tactiles make people feel safer
SmarterLite’s Vivacity LED Safety Tactile are making a real difference to how safe people feel walking in the City of Melbourne, Australia, according to a new market research report. Market research found that 68% of survey respondents felt that the LED lights in the footpath…