The idea for Dynamic Lane Marking (DRM) arose during the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management’s ‘Road to the Future’ innovation program, which originated at the end of the 1990’s. DRM is an instrument which can help organize and utilize the capacity of the existing infrastructure under various circumstances (traffic congestion, incidents and road operations). Over the past few years, several areas in The Netherlands have been equipped with DRM systems, called ‘pilots’. These pilots were conducted to further develop the system.

Unfortunately, the results obtained from these pilots were fairly scattered. This resulted in unclear data, making it difficult to communicate what the impact of DRM could be in the future. Therefore, Royal Haskoning was commissioned to clarify the impact of DRM in the future and the position of DRM within the regular set of tools for the design of infrastructure, in a series of reports.

Tasks included the manufacturing of a State of the Art plan for 2005, a communication plan, an application monitor, a demands program, a research program and a website. Based on the results attained from this project, the government hopes to make suitable decisions on the possible use of DRM for standard decision-making surrounding the design, arrangement, equipment and maintenance of roads.

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