In view of the actual characteristics of mountain roads with many sharp turns, steep slopes and curve and slope combined sections, adjacent to water and cliffs, and frequent disastrous weather, focusing on pain points and difficulties such as poor visual distance, rain and fog weather, low visibility at night, insufficient monitoring of escape lanes, normal icing and freezing in winter, frequent crosswind at valley passes, frequent damage to guardrails, and slippery pavement at high-risk points, a series of intelligent sensing, monitoring, early warning, alarm technologies and equipment have been developed and granted relevant patents. Most of the technologies and equipment have been applied and promoted, and have produced good results, providing new ideas and solutions to some traditional pain points and difficulties faced by mountain road traffic accident prevention and control and traffic safety protection. In order to better serve the prevention and control of road traffic accidents in complex environment in mountainous areas, build smooth, safe, comfortable and beautiful roads, and guide the safety reconstruction of sections prone to accidents and with high driving risks, some typical technologies with good effect and ability to solve practical problems are summarized, so as to better popularize and apply them, adapt to the needs of traffic development in the new era, and further improve the level of road traffic safety and service quality in mountainous areas in China, and improve the level of intelligent management and control.
The research results have been popularized and applied to 235 sets on 178 road sections with hidden dangers in 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, significantly reducing road traffic accidents (with an average reduction rate of 78.4%, and 0 accidents on local road sections), realizing no traffic accidents with casualties, shortening the response time of cross-department rescue from at least 30 minutes to less than 5 minutes, and greatly improving the survival probability of seriously injured people in accidents.
The products developed by the team include 12 intelligent early warning systems for intelligent traffic equipment and one integrated intelligent traffic safety management and decision-making platform, specifically, including an expressway fog induction system, a driving warning system for sections with poor sight distance, an emergency lane monitoring and alarm system, a safety guarantee warning system for driving in rain and fog and at night, a wave guardrail collision sensing alarm system, a road icing and freezing monitoring and alarm system, a roadside crosswind monitoring and alarm system, a binocular guidance warning anti-fatigue system, a radar microwave electronic fence warning system, a tunnel entrance/exit warning system, a traffic diversion multifunctional robot system, a cooling-type colored anti-skid pavement, and an integrated intelligent traffic safety management and decision-making platform.