School Zone Traffic Calming:
Make your School Zone Safer with Radar Speed Signs

Make your school zone safer with Radarsign's School Zone Safety System. This system includes flashing beacons, a regulatory speed limit sign, and a radar sign with a yellow fluorescent YOUR SPEED faceplate. Equipped with an integrated timer system, the sign can be programmed to operate only during specified school days and school hours and to adjust for different speed limits during school zone times.

The School Zone Safety System is more effective than stand-alone flashing beacons because of the physiological response of drivers to the radar sign displaying their actual speed. Because the sign flashes the driver's speed as they approach it, the driver is forced into an active state of awareness of how fast they are driving, resulting in increased speed limit compliance.

Each component in our School Zone Safety System was designed to meet the highest quality standards, withstand the toughest weather, and provide a reliable method of slowing traffic in school zones and keeping our children safer.

Effectiveness

Radarsign's driver feedback signs give drivers notice they are speeding.

• Tests confirm that 80% of speeding drivers will slow down when alerted by a radar sign.
• Typical speed reductions are 10-20%, and overall speed limit compliance increases by 30-60%.
• Studies show that radar speed signs continue to be effective in slowing traffic even seven years after installation.

Sign Operation and Management

All Radarsign models are equipped with Bluetooth™ as a standard feature for the operation and management of your radar signs.

• Connect directly to a Windows laptop or Netbook
• No need to open the radar sign to retrieve data card
• Operates up to 30 feet away from the radar sign
• Downloads daily traffic records in about 15 seconds

Funding Options

Federal grant funding is available for elementary and middle schools through the Safe Routes to School Program (SRTS) (http://www.saferoutesinfo.org) for roadway safety measures which include traffic calming devices such as a driver feedback sign. Radarsign models are eligible for 100% funding as an infrastructure improvement. For information on Federal funding from your State DOT go to http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/contacts/index.cfm

• PTA fundraising project
• Donations from local "big box" retailers who want to be good corporate citizens
• Donations from concerned local civic groups
• State transportation grants