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…
Major Safety Upgrade to Highway Traffic Lights
OmniGrip Direct has installed Vivacity LED footpath lights in Trafalgar, Victoria, delivering a major safety upgrade to the pedestrian crossings of the busy Princes Highway. The footpath lights are Vivacity LED Safety Tactiles that change colour with the traffic lights. The site is the third…
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…
Safer children at New Zealand traffic lights
LED footpath lights have been installed at a community traffic school in Dunedin, New Zealand, demonstrating the traffic light safety technology to children, their parents and carers. The new lights are Vivacity LED Safety Tactiles that change colour with the traffic lights. The installation of…
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…
Designing Traffic Lights & Crossings for People with LED TGSI
The Vivacity LED Safety Tactile fundamentally rethinks how visual information is provided to pedestrians at traffic signals and pedestrian crossings for roads, tramlines and train tracks. It is a Tactile Ground Surface Indictor (TGSI) that incorporates LED lights that can be connected to traffic lights….
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…