SMART E67 variable message signs (VMS)

SMART E67 is a joint Estonian-Latvian project during which sections with roadside smart technology (ITS, Intelligent Transport Systems) solutions for managing and monitoring traffic, as well as informing road users on different sections of the Via Baltica route (E67) were built. The aim of the project is to make traffic safer and smoother on the international high density route, as well as achieving savings in driving time.
At the beginning of 2017, the Road Administration announced a public procurement for acquiring a system of variable message signs for the Tallinn-Pärnu-Ikla highway. TRAFFEST, as the winner of the tender, designed and built a system based on the equipment of Swarco Futurit by the end of the same year. The adjustment work was completed in mid 2018. The result of the work was the installation of 8 information displays, 18 speed limit signs and 12 signs combining warnings and speed limits, metal structures holding signs were built and the electrical connections established.
The possibility of using signs with variable speed limits to allow for a higher speed than 90 km/h in the winter period in the case of good weather conditions has been created for the first time in Estonia, while at the same time, in the case of hazards, it is possible to operationally reduce the allowed speed limit. The information displays inform road users about traffic restrictions, road works and temporary detours. In winter, road users are also warned about unexpected slippery roads as well as displaying air and road temperature data of road weather stations.”