5244 note related to traffic safety on the first day of “Significant and Safe Roads” campaign. What are the Roads General Authority’s efforts to enhance safety?
How has the Roads General Authority improved traffic safety?
As part of road safety improvements, the Roads General Authority has launched the “Excellent and Safe Roads” campaign. The Minister of Transportation and Logistics dedicated the last five days of January to surveying and evaluating the road network outside the urban area.
Members of different categories participated in the campaign. They include transportation and logistics system employees, university students, and road security personnel. Representatives from the Ministry of Communications and Information and the Ministry of Energy and Industry also participated in the campaign. The participants were divided into 62 teams distributed in different regions of Saudi Arabia.
Participants monitor all observations on the roads, such as:
- Potholes and cracks in the roads.
- Poor communication network.
As well as any observation that they believe affects the quality of services for road users and the observations that road users share with the Authority while using the road.
Some of the techniques to improve traffic safety used by the Authority
The Minister of Transportation and the head of the Roads General Authority have launched an innovative technology to ensure the efficiency of road signs by measuring reflective films.
The technology assesses the quality and effectiveness of the reflective films and consequently, the signs in terms of clarity, using specialized devices to measure the volume of reflected light. Through this technique, visibility on the road can be improved, especially in bad weather conditions and at night, by identifying the need for maintenance or replacement of the signs to ensure the clarity of the signs on the road signs.
As the reflective films and materials in the signs have specific color coordinates during the day and night, the daytime color coordinates differ from the nighttime color, and the nighttime color coordinates are clearer and higher, as stated in the Saudi Road Code 602.
This is what we have been keen to achieve in all our traffic signs that adhere to the standards of the Saudi Road Code.
Results of the campaign launched to enhance traffic safety
On the final day of the fifth consecutive year of the “Excellent and Safe Roads” campaign, the Roads General Authority announced the results of the initiative. The campaign succeeded in monitoring more than 14,000 observations on Saudi Arabia’s roads, which totaled more than 73,000 kilometers in length.
What is the benefit of the Roads General Authority’s traffic campaign?
The improvement of roads and the safety of road users can only happen when one of two things happens:
- Accidents occur and road faults are discovered.
- Monitoring issues and observations on the roads through a complete survey of the road.
Because the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia strives to avoid the first point to protect citizens and minimize human and economic losses, it has moved to achieve and maintain the second point, whether through observations sent by road users and shared with the Roads General Authority, or through full road surveys, as mentioned above.
The issues that have been detected are then addressed or road safety is enhanced through traffic systems that significantly preserve the lives of citizens and minimize economic losses to the country.
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What role can Shawahid play in enhancing safety?
First of all, adhering to the standards of the Saudi Road Code in safety systems achieves a high degree of road safety, which is what we are striving for. The company has adhered to the specifications of the Saudi Road Code in all its systems, making them certified. We have also developed other systems to achieve the sustainability that Saudi seeks, such as solar traffic signs and solar road studs.
All of Shawahid’s traffic safety systems are environmentally friendly and conform to specifications, so we guarantee that you achieve full benefit from the economic and human side without harm.
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