Traffic and Parking Control Co., or TAPCO, in 2021 introduced LegendViz, LED lighting inside “wrong way” and “do not enter” signs that makes them easier to see at night, even before headlights shine on them.
After a wrong-way crash killed four college students in Tampa, the state of Florida improved signs and pavement markings at nearly all freeway ramps and installed flashing alert systems at many of them.
Brown Deer-based Traffic and Parking Control Co., or TAPCO, in 2012 launched a wrong-way alert system, now sold in more than 30 states. Alex Perry, intelligent warning systems sales manager, said flashing lights, like those in a model of the system in the company's show room, alert errant drivers to "wrong way" signs.
Brian Scharles, right, director of product innovation at Traffic and Parking Control Co., helped the Wisconsin Department of Transportation install TAPCO's wrong-way alert systems at 20 locations in Milwaukee County. He said the systems could help elsewhere, such as neighboring Waukesha County. "It's just as busy out there and just as confusing," said Scharles, shown with Alex Perry, intelligent warning systems sales manager.
Deadly police encounters in Wisconsin were up last year and are on track this year to exceed the modern record of 26 deaths set in 2017.
Brown Deer-based Traffic and Parking Control Co., or TAPCO, in 2012 launched a wrong-way alert system, now sold in more than 30 states. Alex Perry, intelligent warning systems sales manager, said flashing lights, like those in a model of the system in the company's show room, alert errant drivers to "wrong way" signs.
Traffic and Parking Control Co., or TAPCO, in 2021 introduced LegendViz, LED lighting inside “wrong way” and “do not enter” signs that makes them easier to see at night, even before headlights shine on them.
Brian Scharles, right, director of product innovation at Traffic and Parking Control Co., helped the Wisconsin Department of Transportation install TAPCO's wrong-way alert systems at 20 locations in Milwaukee County. He said the systems could help elsewhere, such as neighboring Waukesha County. "It's just as busy out there and just as confusing," said Scharles, shown with Alex Perry, intelligent warning systems sales manager.
