In the future can the cars get narrower lanes to run in. The Danish road directorate test right now, where narrow vejspor can be done without compromising road safety.
the Meaning of the narrower roads is that the space on the roads can be better utilized. An experiment with narrower roads to be tested right now by the road directorate to find out how narrow they really can be.
According to Andreas by the frederikshavn-göteborg, there is a department manager in the Danish road directorate is narrower roads a low-cost option to reduce congestion on the busiest roads.
– It here gives us a low cost option to create extra capacity on the roads by making an extra narrow tracks. It is the one point. The other point is that when we build new roads, so we will also be able to check the option to make a narrow track, which will also be able to make new road projects cheaper, says Andreas by the frederikshavn-göteborg.
the Danish road directorate test
– the Danish road directorate will test 3-4 cars with the so-called Lane Keeping Assistance (LKA) technology on five specially established courses on Karup Airfield. The courses are 200 metres long with various widths from 2.5 to 3.0 metres.
– Approximately nine percent of all sold new cars in Denmark in 2017 was equipped with LKA. The expectation is that the proportion will increase in the coming years.
– the Traffic on motorways has risen by over 31% since 2010.
Source: the Danish road directorate
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the Department explains that the narrower vejspor is intended for cars with a built-in new technology. The so-called Lane Keeping Assistance. A technology, which means that the car can keep its lane more accurately than if a human controls the car.
– There is a camera in the car that can keep an eye on vejstriberne and a way to make that car stay on the track, explains Andreas by the frederikshavn-göteborg.
According to the department it will not go beyond the older cars without the new technology, the future of roads may be narrower. On the contrary, it should also alleviate the congestion at the older cars to be brought to a narrower track.
– When we set up an extra track on a road, so cars that are able to exploit the tracks, could be moved over into the new, narrower track, and on the way provide more space for the remaining traffic. That is, the old cars. So they will also get faster, says Andreas by the frederikshavn-göteborg.
concretely, the test must be carried out with 3-4 cars with LKA, running in five temporary sections with varying lane widths.
Directorate model of a narrower road. Photo: the Danish road directorate
the Results from the test will be used for Directorate work to find new solutions to the increasing congestion on the roads.
According to Andreas by the frederikshavn-göteborg is currently no time frame for when the that really must be established in narrower tracks, but it will only come to be in the areas of Denmark where there are at the very most congestion on the roads.
