LED Systems and hi-tech Roads
C.T. Elettronica s.r.l is one of the leading Italian manufactures of road safety products, in particular variable message boards (VMB) for urban and non-urban areas. One of its most important projects involved the Catania-Siracusa motorway, where C.T. Elettronica s.r.l supplied and installed VMB and their relative supporting structures in collaboration with Pagano & Ascolillo s.p.a., a firm based in San Pietro al Tanagro (Salerno): as many as 355 VMB for tunnels and 15 VMB for roads were part of tender commissioned by an important Italian building firm, ATI, width Elettrotel s.r.l. handling the installation of the VMB and their supporting structures. C.T. Elettronica also produced 4 systems of parking signage consisting of variable message boards (VMB) strategically positioned in the outskirts and central areas of various cites: inside the plant of Novo Pignone Ge & Oil and Gas in Florence to direct vehicles towards the three available car parks, in the city of Siena for the client SIENA Parcheggi s.p.a. And the city of Florence for the client FIRENZE Parcheggi s.p.a. Last but not least, a particularly important project was that carried out in the port of Nice on behalf of SNEF-MATIS.
Here below is a list of products supplied by the firm: VMB providing traffic information and weather bulletins. CT Elettronica is producing an information system to supply users with traffic and weather bulletins, as part of a wider project called SICURTRAF, run by the Province of Florence, and which contemplates the sale of material for 54 information points. Safety products for roads and tunnels. The Freccia-Croce panels are a signage system with predefined pictogram showing the correct use of lanes when approaching tunnels or motorway tool booths, or in any circumstances requiring traffic to be rerouted.
VMB road safety products for use along motorways, main or minor country roads, or in urban contexts. Variable message boards use LED technology to show information, which may either consists in texts (alphanumerical boards) or graphs (graph boards).
The latter are variable in a monochromatic version or in full-color, and are frequently used to show pictogram such as the highway code. Fitting out vehicles for providing information on traffic conditions. Full-Color VMBs are graph boards for showing color images and symbols and also represent one of the most commonly used systems for depicting road signs on the special vehicles used to inform motorists about traffic conditions. LED lighting for private and public purposes. Constantly updated and tuned in to requests coming from the market, C.T. Elettronica designs and produces lighting fixtures using LED technology (LED ceiling fixtures for tunnels, luminous signs etc.)
