Pavement Marker : cat's eyes

The cat's eyes is a low amount assurance apparatus that can be installed at assorted locations and in assorted means to acquaint the alley users.

Purpose, Installation, Specification and Color usage

Based on the simple assumption of the law of absorption these simple alley assurance accessories are accepted worldwide. The cat's eye avalanche in the class of aloft pavement markers and is a awakening cogitating assurance accessory acclimated in alley marking. It originated aback in the 19th aeon and is acclimated all over the apple today. Though a baby facet, the cat’s eye assignment wonders in allegorical the drivers way advanced abnormally at night.

The Cat’s eye should be ablaze abundant to brighten the alley at night and should be boxy abundant to bear all weathers and cartage active over the top of it. Aloft pavement marker’s accession rules out the abstract availability of cartage lights, thus, allowance in the attention of activity as well.

Cat's eyes are acclimated to ascendancy cartage and animate safe active conditions. They are additionally accepted as cartage delineators, aloft pavement markers, alley markers, alley reflectors or alley studs. Though best of them accept a cogitating lens that reflects the ablaze from agent headlights, some do not accept cogitating lenses on them and appropriately serve alone to adapt the speed.

Purpose and Advantages of raised pavement markers

Raised pavement markers are acclimated for a array of purposes, and are abnormally important for authoritative cartage lanes arresting to drivers at night, authoritative alarming curves arresting and allegorical the drivers of the alignment of the road. Cat's eyes are acclimated to ascendancy cartage and animate safe active conditions.

Cat’s Eyes can be installed in specific patterns to actualize assorted cartage ascendancy solutions. When bowl alley reflectors are placed abutting calm in rows, spanning the amplitude of a road, they can anatomy a cartage abstracted boom band which helps in abbreviation speed.

Pedestrian bridge zones are additionally sometimes created with reflectors to facilitate the pedestrians and the drivers both.

The purpose of installing cat’s eye in the breadth is to abstracted out vehicular lanes, abstain accepted alteration of lanes and added importantly, anticipate swerving which is the best accepted account of accidents. The attendance of the cat’s eye would ensure that the cartage break aural their appointed lanes, and would accordingly absolute their acceleration to 40 kilometers per hour, which is the best absolute according to all-embracing rules.The Cats Eyes are originally white in blush and are installed aloft the pavement appearance that separates lanes or separates the average of the road. However they are accessible in added colors and anniversary blush specifies a altered function.

Color Usage

Red studs are used to warn drivers that they are nearing the edge of the road. Amber studs are installed along a dual carriageway. Green colored studs signify the edge of the main carriageway.

Green/Yellow studs warn drivers that there are temporary adjustments to lane layouts e.g., near under construction zones.

In Pakistan however, only white, yellow or red cat eyes are observed bearing a four sided or circular figure. They are usually made from ceramic, plastic or metal.
In efforts to make the roads safer and at the same time address traffic problems, metal road studs individually called “cat’s eye” are installed on the lane dividers along many corridors and major arterials in Karachi City. The installation of the cat’s eye is in response to the increasing number of vehicular accidents in the city. But sadly most of the cat’s eyes are either stolen; drug addicts are mostly involved in the theft of these road safety gadgets or have weathered prior to their expected life cycle due to poor quality or lack of maintenance. For areas where traffic movement is high or for a more permanent placement of the cat’s eyes, epoxy or bituminous adhesive should be applied which is a better way to adhere the reflector to the asphalt.

These insignificant pieces of metal contribute a lot in the field of transportation; even if the reflectors lower the risk of accidents by 1/100th of 1 percent they fulfill a necessary role in saving human lives.