Radar Speed Signs

Applications for Radar Speed Signage.

TWM’s radar speed signs are engineered for optimal safety and fast communications. They are used in countless settings with above-average accidents or where upcoming road features like tight corners or school crossings command heightened driver awareness and compliance.

Adaptable configurations make radar speed signage ideal for any high-risk setting. It offers automatic activations, manual switching functionality, varied display formats to adjust to time-limited speed controls, and flashing warnings or beacons to improve speed management.

• Educational and Healthcare Settings: Schools, colleges, universities, hospital campuses and other complexes have strict speed controls to protect vulnerable site users, personnel, visitors and children, with a core need for pre-emptive and efficient speed management devices.
• Accident Black Spots: Most collisions occur due to complacency or excessive speeds. Variable and unmissable radar signs not only raise driver awareness of significant hazards but also display their current speed publicly and in high-visibility LEDs to avoid any potential for inadvertently dangerous speeds.
• Roadways With Hazards or Features: Drivers unfamiliar with a road may be unaware of upcoming weak bridges, sharp corners, one-way zones or steep hills, where radar signs can prompt a shift in speed well in advance of an upcoming danger.
• Before and After Changing Speed Limits: Most common in rural areas where national speed limits drop suddenly to 20 or 30 MPH zones in residential villages, radar speed signs are a frequent feature to reiterate the speed limit displayed on fixed signage and notify drivers when they are driving too fast for the conditions or environment.
• Controlled Premises or Transport Hubs: Ports, transit parks, logistics/distribution centres, construction zones, and airports prioritise speed management for HGVs, pedestrians, and potentially high footfall numbers. They use radar speed signs to enforce and reiterate the speed limitations.

Of course, flexible radar speed signs have multiple other applications and use cases, but targeted driver communications can benefit any setting, environment, compound, or premise where supervisors, safety managers, and owners need to manage speeds, improve driver compliance, and mitigate accident risks.

Explore Our Radar Speed Signage Products

Calibrated radar speed signs have varied set-ups, with solar or battery power for temporary installations or permanent tamper-proof fixtures. They also have different features like customisable messaging, traffic data collation, and always-on connectivity.

Below, we’ve summarised some of the many radar-activated speed signs within the TWM Traffic range.

Vehicle-Activated Speed Control Sign

Our vehicle activated speed signage is engineered to match the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions (TSRGD) for simplified compliance. It mirrors the design of the mandatory maximum speed limit sign for improved interpretation and immediate driver understanding of the warning.

Users can activate manual switching to adjust the LED displays, whether altering the speed detection parameters, the display shown to upcoming vehicles, or activating data collection features for traffic management and reporting purposes.

Mini Matrix

The Mini Matrix Sign is a highly functional multi-messaging display model that provides users the greatest possible versatility regarding the messaging, instructions, communications, directions, warnings, cautions, or thanks displayed to drivers.

With radar detection functions, live data capture, ongoing traffic monitoring, and the ability to adapt to changing road conditions, speed limitations, or notices for drivers entering events, high-speed roadways, new environments, or speed control zones, one sign can replace multiple conventional signage units.

Speed Indicator Devices

Speed Indicator Devices uses the same radar speed detection technology and can display various speed warnings and instructions (SLOW DOWN). It is used mainly in highway environments where speeding is a known issue.

How Can We Help Slow Down Traffic?  

Radar speed signs often outperform static and fixed signage due to the real-time feedback and messaging displayed. These signs inform drivers if they are breaching the speed limit and encourage responsible driving behaviour.

Vehicle-activated signs are used in traffic calming initiatives to support targeted enforcement, as they have optimal data collation functionality, and to improve safety for all road users, including cyclists and pedestrians.

Research has shown that radar speed signs are effective. They typically reduce speeds by 10% to 20% and generate ‘substantial’ reductions in overall driver speeds up to 80% of the time signage is in place and operational.