R.O.A.D™ Database and Horizon Signal sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
Cato, NY, April 2022 — R.O.A.D, the Real Ontime Accurate Data (R. O. A. D.)™ for Work Zones, and Horizon Signal Technologies, manufacturer and supplier of the most powerful portable traffic signals in the world, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to become a supplier of data to its cloud-based database of road event attributes.
R.O.A.D, the Real Ontime Accurate Data (R. O. A. D.)™ for Work Zones has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Horizon Signal Technologies, a manufacturer and supplier of Portable Traffic Signals, to allow data from Horizon Signal products to be supplied to the R.O.A.D cloud database.
The agreement formalizes the collaboration of both parties working towards providing data for safer roads and commuter travel into a national database that represents an industry-first that includes the actual producers and generators of work-zone information, collectively known as the Work-Zone Data Industry (WZDi™).
The Real Ontime Accurate Data (R. O. A. D.)™ for Work Zones is a cloud-based database of road event data supplied by preeminent equipment and infrastructure developers, IoT equipment retrofit companies, construction operators, maintenance and traffic control companies. These organizations all work together to provide data for safer roads.
iCone Products’ CEO John Brod says that “existing and growing relationships with other major players in the Work Zone Data industry will produce by far the most comprehensive, reliable and timely collection of work zone data to be made universally available”.
The R.O.A.D Database will adhere to the established protocol of data feeds for the collection and distribution of information related to the location and activity of road work developed by The Federal Geographic Data Committee Transportation Subcommittee Work Zone Data Working Group. R.O.A.D. intends to enhance this feed with additional certification of valid traffic control components with secure, documented data transfers, with a verified chain of custody from the field device to the client. This extra layer of compliance is the WZDi’s process of ensuring that the data produced is accurate, timely, and meaningful.
About Horizon Signal Technologies:
Horizon Signal Technologies is a privately held Pennsylvania based company specializing in meeting the needs of the construction industry through the manufacture and deployment of portable traffic signal systems. Since our inception in 1988 we have dedicated ourselves to providing innovative and reliable solutions to meet the demands of the temporary traffic control industry. Our versatile signal systems have a long, proven history of providing dependable service in a wide range of applications. We utilize known proven technologies and, where needed, enhance and/or develop new technologies to meet the needs of the demanding traffic control industry.
About R.O.A.D:
The R.O.A.D Database is the clearinghouse for work zone-generated attributes that may require corrective or attentive action or alertness from roadway users, ultimately protecting the most vulnerable assets, the workers, on the roadways. The R.O.A.D database will strive to involve a significant portion of the Work Zone Data Industry (WZDi), through non-competitive relationships with major traffic control equipment manufacturers, pavement marking companies and other significant producers of smart work zone technology and data that perform tasks on a daily basis such as temporary work zones, lane closures, protecting lives and equipment, painting lanes, closing roads, and performing maintenance, through automatic communications from devices integrated inside roadway assets.
R.O.A.D is a subsidiary of iCone Products, LLC which has been guiding the future of Work Zone Safety! as the creator of the IoR - Internet of RoadworkTM - enabled equipment to a repository of data that provides increased safety through an additional layer of security for both workers and oncoming motorists. This data is also provided to the navigation community, improving route navigation through direct communication with in-car navigation systems such as Google Maps, Waze and eventually directly displayed in the dash of automobiles.
All Inquires please contact:
Garvin Forrester
COO
g.forrester@iconeproducts.com