<The U.S Department of Transport estimates that the United States
spends annually about $1 trillion or one sixth of the U.S. Gross
Domestic Product on transportation products and services.
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Demand for highway safety products is expected to increase both
domestically and internationally as the U.S., European and Australian
governments are committed to reducing traffic fatalities and injuries.
Australia has launched a ten year plan to improve road safety. The aim
is to reduce fatalities by 40 percent by 2010. Various strategies are
being implemented including intelligent transport systems, driver
education and improving compliance with speed limits.
http://www.atcouncil.gov.au/atcnrss.htm
Growth will also come as a result of new highway construction. The
U.S. Highway construction market is predicted to grow 2 to 3% in 2003.
http://www.wasteage.com/ar/transportation_artba_forecasts_/
Emerging international markets are Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin
America and Asia.
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In the next 10 years China plans to build 350,000 km of highways.
http://www.tdctrade.com/imn/imn190/markettrends23.htm .
Poland plans to build 550 km of highways by 2005
http://www.wienerzeitung.at/frameless/english.htm?ID=Eng&Menu=6702
The U.S. Department of Transportation plans to address the issue of
intersection safety. In 2000 there were over 2.8 million
intersection-related crashes (44 percent of all crashes) resulting in
8500 fatalities and almost 1 million injuries. The annual cost of
intersection crashes is $40 billion.
The goal is to reduce fatalities by 10 to 15 percent in aggressive
driving, head-on and run-off-the-road crashes on two-lane roads,
people who drive with suspended and revoked licenses, hazardous trees
that need to be addressed in an environmentally acceptable manner and
unsignalized intersections. An infra structure consortium has been
formed. Part of their brief is to research infrastructure based
sensors, infrastructure communication methods and developments of in
vehicle systems.
http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/fourthlevel/intersafagenda.htm#whatinplace
Under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st century (TEA-21), ten
percent of a state’s Surface Transportation Program is reserved for
safety programs. Over the last 10 years states received $4.8 billion.
However states have underfunded safety resulting in almost $1billion
being unspent. The upcoming reauthorisation of TEA-21 will allow the
legislators the opportunity to stop underfunding in safety.
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The U.S. Government proposed fiscal budget for 2004 requests $54.3
billion (6 percent up on 2003) for transport. $14.4 billion (27
percent) is for transport safety which is a top priority for U.S.
Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta.
http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot01103.htm
U.S are in a poor state of repair.
http://www.tripnet.org/nationalfactsheet.htm
House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman Don Young
(R-AK) has outlined a plan to boost revenues to double the size of the
highway program by 2009 (from the $31.8 billion in FY2002 to $60
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ATSSA proposes spending $3 billion annually to counteract road deaths
and injuries. Improvements to road safety include bigger and brighter
signs, wider pavement markings, upgraded traffic signals, installation
of rumble strips, guard rails, median dividers, warning signs and
markings and crash cushions, and auditory cross walks.
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Tolls are planned to pay for improvements to the highways.
http://highways.org/news/rules.html
Guard rails.
The U.S . guard rails market is worth approximately $375 million per
year. Trinity Industries Inc. dominates the guard rail market in the
U.S., producing 70 percent of all guard rails installed in the U.S.
http://www.tertu.com/uk/international/distribution.html Annually they
manufacture 16 million feet (3,000 miles) of guard rails.Trinity
expects growth in the highway safety products market. In 1999 its
sales of highway products was $220 million.
http://www.trin.net/invsrela/press/pr010904.html
Crash cushions
In the U.S Quixote has 90% of the crash cushion market. It also has
70% of the highway advisory market.
http://www.thestreet.com/comment/chrisedmonds/10001834.html In the
first quarter of 2003 its international sales of crash cushions were
$3,287,000 which was an increase of 147% on last year. Sales were
particularly strong in Europe and Canada.
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/021112/quix10-q.html In 2002 they introduced
QuadGuard, a new crash cushion system.
http://www.quixotecorp.com/investor/pr.asp?objectID=8
Intelligent Transport Systems.
The global traffic detection market is currently in excess of $5
billion and is predicted to exceed $10 billion in five years.
Inductive loop detectors are being replaced by non-invasive systems.
http://www.sanewsletters.com/ITS/ATDsummary.asp
Companies supplying traffic detectors.
http://www.sanewsletters.com/ITS/ATDtoc.asp
ITS Technologies
http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/02may/03.htm
The market for Intelligent Transport Systems which include in-vehicle
devices with global positioning systems and collision avoidance
systems is expected to be worth $450 billion over the next 20 years.
ITS also includes infrastructure such as highway cameras, changeable
message signs, highway advisory radio and advanced traffic management
control systems.
http://www.battelle.org/news/99/No.19-INTEL.stm
ITS market worth $430 billion by 2015.
http://www.itsri.org/2003ITS-RIBrochure.pdf
Market for ITS in California predicted to reach $10.8 billion.
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Global RFID market was worth $1.4 billion in 2000
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications/message/606
The European market for onboard microwave communications units is
expected to triple. Electronic fee collection (EFC) and road user
charging systems use microwave communication between onboard units
(OBUs) and the roadside infrastructure. According to Miranda Carter,
There are currently around 4.3 million OBUs in use in Europe. This is
expected to rise to 14.3 million by 2006. It also has the potential to
rise to all vehicle in Europe with additional ITS functions. In
addition to OBUs, licence plate recognition (LPR) is used.
Switzerland currently operates a vehicle positioning system for heavy
vehicles. They are tracked by GPS via an OBU and charged via a smart
card.
The German government plans to introduce a similar system for
commercial vehicles over 12 tonnes in 2003. Austria plans to introduce
the system in 2004.The Netherlands is likely to introduce the system
in all vehicles.
The European microwave OBU market is dominated by G-free (75%),
followed by Combitech (17%) then Autostrade, CS Route, FELA and GEA
with each less than 5%.
In January 2003 LPR was introduced into the UK to collect charges on
London’s roads.
http://www.itsinternational.com/mag/jan02efc.htm
Frost and Sullivan predict that U.S. telematics revenues will reach
$7.2 billion by 2005.
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Nestor has developed CrossingGuard, a video-based intersection
monitoring system that provides automated enforcement of red-light
violations.
http://www.nestor.com/nts/news/990405TR.html
Anti-icing
The U.S. currently spends $2 billion on ice and snow control. In
addition there is the cost of accidents caused by ice and snow.
Traditional products like salt mixtures also damage the road surface.
Anti-icing technology has proved to be a more superior method of
dealing with ice and snow. Automated systems achieve savings in
manpower costs.
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Salt
http://www.saltinstitute.org/30.html
Anti-icing costs
http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/weather/faqs.htm
Anti-icing study
http://www.thundersword.com/mc.htm
Deliniators
100 percent market growth is predicted for LED road studs.
http://www.aixtron.com/redir.php?url=http://www.aixtron.com/press/0211e.htm
A British company is developing a new range of intelligent road studs
that incorporate a camera.
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The potential market for a snow plowable deliniator is 100 million
units in the U.S. The combined markets of Canada and Europe also have
a market for 100 million units. Potential sales are $4 billion.
http://www.highwaybeacon.com/execsummary_body.htm
<Additional links:>
<White paper on traffic safety in Japan 2002>
<http://www8.cao.go.jp/koutu/taisaku/h14kou_haku/wp2002.pdf>
<Evaluation study of illuminated cross walks.>
<http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:r2vU9mWdNyQJ:www.katzokitsu.com/companyinfo/articles%26studies/studies/crosswalks/ftnvlly.pdf+%22road+studs%22+market+million&hl=en&start=38&ie=UTF-8>
<State of the roads report>
<http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:eViwf3sZ2Y4J:www.atssa.com/downloads/state_of_infrastructure.pdf+%22safety+infrastructure%22&hl=en&start=8&ie=UTF-8>
<TEA – 21>
<http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tea21/factsheets/isfty.htm>
<ITS>
<http://www.ncsl.org/programs/esnr/transr12.htm>
<Transport export council>
<http://www.dot.gov/affairs/fhwa401.htm>
<Quixote has a 75% share of the highway advisory radio market.
Quixote has experienced 40% growth in international markets in the
last 3 years.>
<http://www.thestreet.com/comment/chrisedmonds/10001834.html>
<Radio systems>
<http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:A-kZuKH9F_kJ:www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov/%255CJPODOCS%255CREPTS_TE/5GB01!.PDF+%22highway+advisory+radio%22+%22current+market%22&hl=en&start=6&ie=UTF-8>
<Crash report>
<http://www.srisd.com/CRASH_Report_Vol_3,_Issue_8.htm>
<Quixote outlook good>
<http://www.quixotecorp.com/investor/pr.asp?objectID=8>
<Hope this helps.> |
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