England’s National Highways agency is using a variable message sign(VMS) to display non-regulatory messages to indicate that maintenance teams may be out of sight.
The is the first time that such messages have been displayed in an effort to better communicate to drivers that ahead lay obstacles, diversions road works. The system from SRL Traffic Systems is displaying wording not usually used, including ‘Working even out of view’, to provide an awareness of operations not within eyesight of a driver or outside of the public eye.
