2008 Best Practice Innovation Award Winner
Innovation: Quick-Change
Moveable Barriers (QMB)
Company Name: Milton Precast
The QMB is a precast temporary
barrier system designed to allow safe, rapid lane changes even
at peak traffic flows. The basic principle is that
the units are able to be moved in an unbroken chain, by a bespoke
vehicle, at speeds of up to 10mph, thus allowing rapid change
in the work
areas. The system comprises a linked “chain” of reactive
precast concrete tension barrier units, which can be slightly
raised from the road and
moved across the carriageway by the Transfer Vehicle, allowing
lane priority changes during road works and Traffic Tidal Flows.
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