| dc.description.abstract | According to the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Committee (IPCC, 2007) Working Group 1 Fourth Report on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4), the greenhouse effect will increase storm power and change rainfall regularity. Consequ Taiwan will see more rainfall in the future, and it has become a research topic on how to improve driving safety on rainy nights.
Taiwan is already an aging society. The Research, Development and Evaluation Commission (RDEC) of Executive Yuan further predicts that by 2024 the ratio of working to retirement population will be 4 to 1. In other words,the society needs 4 working persons to support a retiree. In order to stimulate national productivity, maintaining a safe driving environment will protect the working population.
In recent years, there have been growing trends in state compensation cases related to crashes caused by motorcycles or bicycles hitting the raised parts of the 360 degree body-colored tempered glass on reflective pavement markers. Given these past circumstances, it has become necessary to improve road safety by using active flashing solar LED pavement markers.
This research focuses on using solar LED markers on pavements, and setting up carbon reducing, actively flashing LED pavement markers in ill-lit mountain roads. However, Taiwan does not yet have national standards nor regulations on solar LED pavement markers. In order for public sectors to use solar LED pavement markers, related government agencies should study or define applicable national standards or regulations.
Keywords：rainy,aging society,solar,LED, pavement markers | en_US |