A roadway safety system, method, and apparatus are provided for preventing a wrong-way collisions on roadways and exit ramps of roadways by maintaining robotic drones at a drone docking station located along the roadway and/or at or near an exit ramp of the roadway; monitoring the exit ramp to detect a wrong-way vehicle that enters the exit ramp in a wrong direction; transmitting a first communication signal to a safety control system upon detecting the wrong-way vehicle; launching at least a first robotic drone from the one or more robotic drones toward the wrong-way vehicle in response to the first communication signal; and generating an alert or warning message from at least the first robotic drone to notify a driver of the wrong-way vehicle that the wrong-way vehicle is traveling in the wrong direction.


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    Title :

    Drone Warning System for Preventing Wrong-Way Collisions


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    Publication date :

    2024-08-01


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    G08G Anlagen zur Steuerung, Regelung oder Überwachung des Verkehrs , TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS / B64U



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