How Can Reflective Road Markings Save Lives On Rainy Nights？

How Can Reflective Road Markings Save Lives on Rainy Nights？

Nov 09,2023

How Can Reflective Road Markings Save Lives on Rainy Nights？

Wet weather, coupled with dark conditions, is the last situation any driver wants to face. According to statistics, about 50% of traffic accidents occur on rainy nights.

Under such circumstance，road markings will lose their brightness due to humidity. The reason is that the rain attached to the marking surface counteracts the reflection of the glass beads. At this time, the road markings can not only be seen clearly, but also affect the performance of vehicles. These adverse factors not only greatly increase the likelihood of traffic congestion, but also significantly cause the increase of commute time and accident risk.

Road markings are supposed to provide a safe solution for this problem, but clear and visible road markings under all-weather condition n are still rare in many areas.

Drivers’ visual perception will be significantly reduced on rainy nights. So that traffic authorities should consider improving road markings to compensate for the lack of road visibility, which can be achieved by using glass beads with larger particle sizes, or by making the road markings protruded to form a special surface texture (structure).

At present, China does not have officially mandatory standards for reflective road markings on rainy nights. However, studies have shown that reflective road markings under all-weather condition are crucial to reducing traffic accident rates. According to a 2016 study by the European Road Federation (EURF), the materials of reflective road marking have a significant impact on drivers' safety awareness, especially in inclement weather conditions.

On rainy nights, reflective road markings can provide drivers with a clearer visibility and track, which in turn allow drivers to predict the road environment ahead more accurately. On the contrary, the probability of error made by drivers could increases by 70% when the road markings are not clear.

That’s exactly the reason why road markings is required to have a rainy night reflective effect, that is, no matter under dry, wet or continuous rain conditions, the AW element of reflective road markings must possess high and stable retro- reflectivity for offering clear visibility so as to improve the road safety for users.

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