Liu Guanlin said that the experience of developed countries in Europe and the United States shows that as one of the road infrastructure, marking plays an important role in reducing traffic accidents and reducing property losses. For example, in 1981, the United States Secretary of Transportation submitted the 1981 Highway Safety Administration Report to Congress. According to the report's summary, of the 38 states that participated in the improved marker demonstration program, supported by federal funding, six states met the minimum standards for a focus study on the benefits of marker marking, and statistically, the improvement could reduce nighttime accidents by 12 percent overall. Adding road boundaries reduced nighttime accidents by 16 percent and low-visibility nighttime accidents by 33 percent.
Liu Guanlin also believes that from the history of the development of the European and American marking, in fact, Europe and the United States itself has experienced a very long process, experienced from nothing to have, from there to the best step by step process, only step by step to today.
In 2018, the global hot melt coatings market sales of about 2 billion US dollars, accounting for 70.37% of the total traffic marking market, of which the United States accounted for about 21% of the market share, about 420 million US dollars of hot melt coatings, Europe accounted for about 19% of the market share, about 380 million US dollars of hot melt coatings, and the same year, According to the statistics of traffic management departments in America and Europe, the sales volume of road marking tape is about 100 million US dollars in America and 50 million US dollars in Europe. This fully demonstrates the recognition of road marking tape in the European and American markets. According to the statistics of the American road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), the compound annual market growth rate of road marking tape was 12% from 2010 to 2014. The compound annual market growth rate of road marking tape is 16%.
Liu Guanlin also said that on September 19, 2019, The State Council promulgated the "Outline for the Construction of a transportation Power", planning to build a transportation power by 2035. With the continuous development of science and technology, automatic driving, car networking, Internet of things, intelligent transportation has also become a hot spot. Line marking can add Internet genes to traffic safety facilities and create a collaborative environment for vehicles and roads.
In the advent of automatic driving today, road marking tape has a unique functional advantage - a built-in chip. The presence of the built-in chip can help the autonomous driving to better obtain information, avoid risks through different levels of information processing, and achieve true vehicle networking and vehicle road collaboration. Compared with the complexity of road construction, the existence of road marking tape can greatly improve the overall efficiency and avoid unnecessary cost increase.
