Aximum’s multi-faceted global traffic control appeal

Aximum, part of the 184 Colas Group, is a French firm with a major global presence in traffic management, road safety equipment, road markings and vertical signs markets, has been highly active across its core business areas.

The company says it has significantly expanded its presence in traffic management in the Middle East in recent years thanks to innovative solutions and quality products. 164 Aximum has a lot of references in Oman, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. In Abu Dhabi, the largest state in the United Arab Emirates, 1,700 of the firm’s Aluxe D300 traffic lights are being used by the city of Abu Dhabi’s transport authority. Aximum has adapted its Aluxe D300 models to local needs by incorporating pedestrian signals with US-style pictograms. The traffic lights are also adapted to meet local technical standards with regard to energy consumption, using specific green light emitting diodes (LEDs) for a novel effect and T-shaped bracket fixings.

In Russia, Aximum recently installed more than 300m of single lane plastic dividers at the KM71 toll station on the M4 motorway near Moscow. The new plastic dividers can be moved from distance with a winch, far safer for road workers who had to move the previous plastic dividers by hand. The Aximum installation was said to be completed in record time and without obstructing traffic. The new extended single lane plastic dividers are said to be ensuring a better flow of traffic at and near to the toll station.

The installation of Aximum’s prefabricated Rocaline® bands, using interstitial bitumen strip Bitufix® to ensure long-lasting hold, is said by the company to have broken years of deadlock on how best to mark roads in the Belgium city of Liege.

All previous road markings tested in Liege, using different plastic, water-based paint or thermoplastic prefabricated solutions, were said by Aximum to have disappeared too quickly.
The innovative and patented Rocaline system, together with Bitufix has also been used in Paris for a number of years.

In the United States, and after successful applications in Texas and Virginia, Aximum subsidiary SES has installed more than 40 of its variable message signs in the Atlantic Coast state of Delaware.

SES says its client needed to replace its ageing and obsolete VMS with technologically advanced models to meet latest technologies but has to work within a limited budget.

The US market-specific SES VMS solution meets NTCIP communications protocol, NEMA, character height and definition adapted standard and able to completely replace or, alternatively, modernise an existing sign. The second option is said to have proven popular with budget-conscious Delaware state officials. In order to limit the impact on traffic, each VMS panel is pre-assembled in the factory and can be installed in just a few hours.