In a project aimed at preventing wrong-way driving accidents, Arizona is installing the nation’s first thermal-camera-based, wrong-way-driver detection system along a 15-mile-long stretch of Interstate 17 in Phoenix.
In the $3.7-million project, Mesa, Ariz.-based highway electrical contractor Contractors West is setting poles, running cable and installing more than 40 cameras atop exit ramps and along the side of the roadway in work that is expected to last until the end of November, according to Bruce Farmer, vice president. Installation is to be followed by a period of testing and adjustment.