Calling all Exhibitors

Each year, exhibitors are encouraged to apply for innovative opportunities designed to help gain the maximum exposure for new products at ATSSA's Annual Convention & Traffic Expo. This year, these events include ATSSA's New Products Rollout (NPRO) Online and Expo Floor Listings, and the NPRO Tour where participants can be considered for an ATSSA Innovation Award.

Some new opportunities and processes have been designed for 2025, including:
  • Each exhibitor can submit up to two products and all products must have been introduced after Jan. 1, 2023.
  • NPRO Tour allows participants to present their product to public agency representatives at their booth during a scheduled time, for an additional fee. One tour is scheduled for Monday, March 3, 1-3 p.m.
  • The Innovation Awards winner and any Honorable Mentions will have the opportunity to present their product and informational video during a Micro Session on the Traffic Expo floor.
  • Non-refundable application fee of $150 ATSSA members/ $500 non-members. Full payment must be paid by Dec. 31, 2024.
The 2025 application is closed as of Nov. 15, 2024. Please direct any NPRO questions to ATSSA’s Nagham “Melodie” Matout ([email protected]).

Videos from the 2024 NPRO presentation submissions with the Innovation Award winner and honorable mentions can be found below.

ATSSA's New Products Rollout (NPRO) ListingS

Discover the future of roadway safety innovations and apply to participate in the NPRO opportunities! For 2025, the New Products Rollout Online and Expo Floor Listings provide participants with extra exposure by being included on an online listing and a meter board on the Traffic Expo floor. New products must have been introduced after Jan. 1, 2023. Exhibitors may submit up to two new products.

Entry fee per product: $150 ATSSA members/$500 non-members.

ATSSA NPRO TOUR & Innovation AwardS consideration

Participants in the NPRO Tour must be entered into the NPRO Listings opportunity first. Up to 15 Tour participants have the opportunity to briefly present their product to tour participants which may include public transportation officials.  Those accepted into the NPRO Tour will have their product and informational video reviewed by a panel of department of transportation (DOT) judges who will assess innovation, safety features and newness to the market of their product, per scoring criteria. From this initial review, the judges will select a group of finalists whom they will chat with at the company’s Traffic Expo booth.

Additional Tour fee per product: $150 ATSSA members/$1,000 non-members.

An ATSSA Innovation Award is the highest honor NPRO participants can achieve. One Innovation Award winner is recognized from innovative products entered into the NPRO Tour. The Innovation Award winner and any Honorable Mentions will have the opportunity to present their product and video during a Micro Session on the Traffic Expo floor.

No additional fee for Innovation Awards consideration.

2024 NPRO participants

The 2024 New Products Rollout (NPRO) included 18 products, 16 of which were submitted with videos. The event is designed to help gain the maximum exposure for new products at ATSSA's Annual Convention & Traffic Expo. Judges voted to award selected entrants with an ATSSA Innovation Award or Honorable Mention.

Learn more and view the product videos from the companies that are participating below. Read about the two additional products from Empco-Lite and Hill & Smith Inc. who submitted without videos in the news article.
Winner - 2024 Innovation Award
RoadPrintz, Cleveland, Ohio
Product: Electra is an operator-driven, truck-mounted mobile robotic pavement marking system. Its precise geo-location capabilities allow users to quickly find and mark centerline positions and record exact locations of existing markings. Electra accurately and precisely marks standard intersections, turn pockets, crosswalks, stop bars, arrows, bike markings, sharrows, markings for preferential lanes such as “Bus Only,” accessible parking, EVs, adjustable school legends, custom words and more. The operator-driven vehicle is built around a standard industrial grade IP67-rated robot arm mounted on a Ford F-550 super-duty chassis. Electra uses a familiar double-acting spray head with standard tips. The industrial grade airless paint compressor with Bluetooth-enabled data logger handles nominal paint pressures of up to 3,000 psi. A rugged on-board control computer is preloaded with RoadPrintz custom software. An intuitive 15-inch touchscreen allows workers to create markings from the safety of the truck cab.
Online: RoadPrintz.com
Honorable Mention - 2024 Innovation Award
LimnTech Scientific Inc., Souderton, Pa.
Product: LifeMark® 300 automated re-striping systems are designed to control the re-striping of pavement markings without a rear operator. The LM 300 efficiently, accurately and securely re-stripe road markings requiring maintenance. As the striping truck travels along the road, the sophisticated AI-driven camera and geospatial technology swiftly pinpoint the markings’ location, start and stop points, as well as their colors. Utilizing this real-time data, the robotic system adjusts the carriage and spray guns to the appropriate positions, ensuring precise activation and deactivation of the selected gun. Consequently, the outdated markings are entirely repainted to their original state.
Online: LimnTech.com
Honorable Mention - 2024 Innovation Award
PSS, Cleveland, Ohio
Product: RAPTOR Rover – for RAPTOR TPRS Handling Machine – is designed specifically for the transport of RAPTOR RoadQuake Handling Machine and mounts to the back of the operating vehicle rather than the front. With RAPTOR Rover, more work vehicles are now compatible for automated Temporary Portable Rumble Strips (TPRS) use, protecting the crew and making its work more efficient. With a weight-distribution hitch, it can be pulled by a vehicle as small as a ½-ton pickup. It has solar panels and batteries to support the use of the RAPTOR and an optional arrow panel. The batteries are charged through the truck’s standard 7-blade RV plug. RAPTOR is controlled using the same remote and wireless monitors, whether installed on the front of a truck or on ROVER.
Online: PSS-innovations.com​
Honorable Mention - 2024 Innovation Award
SpanPath LLC, Tallahassee, Fla.
Product: SpanPath Modular Elevated Pathway is a modular elevated pathway system that provides a new and innovative solution to improve pedestrian safety, accessibility and mobility. The SpanPath system can be used to avoid pedestrian detours while helping promote compliance with accessibility guidelines such as Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines (PROWAG). The SpanPath system may be placed over an existing pathway between construction or maintenance activities to ensure the pathway remains accessible and in service. It has been designed in accordance with the AASHTO Pedestrian Bridge Design Specifications to ensure compliance with federal loading and deflection requirements.
Online: ​SpanPath.com
Colas Inc., Morristown, N.J.
Product: Flowell is an interactive and dynamic light-emitting road marking system that boosts the awareness of both drivers and pedestrians. Light-emitting road markings enhance the safety of all users by addressing the right signal to the right user at the right time. Flowell works around the clock, significantly enhancing the visibility of markings both at night and when overcast. Flowell panels are equally visible during the day when activated. Effectiveness and impact on drivers is high, with notably better compliance in priority rules signage along with increased awareness and a reduction in risky behavior.
Online: FlowellByColas.com
Hill & Smith Inc., Columbus, Ohio
Product: Smart POD® is a non-sacrificial, fully re-directive, non-gating, bi-directional, tested to MASH-16 for Test Level 3 impact attenuator. Use it to help protect motorists from hazards in both permanent and temporary work zone locations. It transitions to wide hazards and attaches to most types of median and roadside barriers. Slightly tapered from front to rear, this allows the side panel sections to nest over the next section, minimizing stress and damage. During impacts, panels move freely past each other and do not become wedged when the system is compressed. It is delivered fully assembled on a skid frame for quick and easy installation.
Online: HillandSmith.com
Pi-lit, Tustin, Calif.
Product: The pi-Cone lighting kit attaches to a standard 28-inch traffic cone. Once applied, the light is permanently attached and illuminates the cone internally. The set of 10 lamps is  linked via radio and coordinates a sequential or simultaneous flashing pattern. The lamps will flash for 14-28 hours depending upon battery option and will recharge as a stack of 10 cones. The cones flash automatically in a sequential pattern. The kit snaps onto the standard JBC 10-pound, 28-inch cone. Alternative cones will be available in the future. Pi-Lit does not sell the cone.
Online: Pi-lit.com
PPG, Greensboro, N.C.
Product: MMAX® Extended Season Area Markings are a preferential lane treatment system combining methyl methacrylate (MMA) resins with hardwearing aggregate and colorfast pigments to deliver an extremely durable, nonslip, highly visible and color-stable area marking that can be applied year-round. This product can be used to delineate bike lanes, bus lanes or other specialty applications. This innovation offers the widest temperature application range in the market – 35 to150 degrees Fahrenheit pavement temperatures – enabling daytime applications of MMA area markings in the summer and enhancing safety for vulnerable road users (VRUs) year-round by improving road visibility and skid-resistance.
Online: ​PPGTrafficInnovations.com
PSS, Cleveland, Ohio
Product: The Parakeet™ AID is an audible information device (AID) designed for custom messaging with a built-in speaker and microphone. When roads and sidewalks are closed, Parakeet allows for up to 60 seconds of pre-recorded instructions to the alternate path for visually impaired pedestrians. The device recording is motion activated, responding to pedestrians as they approach. This motion detection is customizable, allowing for longer or shorter fields of detection as needed. Additionally, the built-in microphone automatically adjusts its decibel level based on surrounding noise throughout the day.
Online: ​PSS-innovations.com
Traffic Pro Beds, Frederick, Md.
Product: Fold-Down Aluminum Stake Fence – Traffic Pro Beds recently replaced steel stake fencing with aluminum fold-down stake fencing as a standard feature on all our beds. Aluminum fencing reduces weight by about 30%. The lightweight fencing reduces worker fatigue and strain. The fold-down feature and swing gates provide easy access to multiple locations on the bed as well as access to the boxes that hold traffic signs for easy loading and unloading from the front or rear of the bed.​
Online: ​TrafficProBeds.com
Traffic Pro Beds, Frederick, Md.
Product: The Halo Light system for nighttime traffic control operations is invaluable for establishing a highly visible line that delineates the working area around a truck where personnel may be present. The line also directs the attention of drivers away from the truck and workers.
Online: ​TrafficProBeds.com
Traffic Pro Beds, Frederick, Md.
Product: The Employee Safety Unit (ESU) and Cone Drive System is the personnel bucket with safety restraint system (SRS) and a key feature of Traffic Pro Beds. Use of the SRS makes the operator compliant with Section 5(a)(1) of the OSHA Act, which requires employees working on the back of a moving vehicle to be restrained against possible impact and ejection. An integral part of the system includes the cone drive system, which moves cones toward the operator for easy access in setting cones in a work zone. The cone drive and PB system eliminates one additional worker from the back of the truck, thus reducing liability and lowering cost.
Online: ​TrafficProBeds.com
Traffic Pro Beds, Frederick, Md.
Product: The Last Line of Defense Truck Mounted Attenuator (TMA) is a result of a customer request, which Traffic Pro Beds designed and built our first TPB with an attenuator. This product is not intended to be a crash truck, but rather the last line of defense when a motorist passes a crash truck in a work zone and moves back into the restricted lane causing impact with the cone truck. The cone truck, equipped with an attenuator, adds a second layer of safety to work crews while permitting the flexibility to use the truck for its intended purpose.
Online: ​TrafficProBeds.com
Traffic Pro Beds, Frederick, Md.
Product: The Dual Mounted Variable Message Sign (VMS)/Arrow Board is a device engineered by Traffic Pro Beds for a customer that permits use of both an arrow board and a message board on the same truck. The device utilizes an electric motor driven hydraulic lift system that employs a rear facing message board and front facing arrow board. This device was requested to provide greater flexibility in lane closure operations and other scenarios that may require one sign versus the other. The device is mounted behind the cab in a stowed position and hydraulically moved into position when deployed.
Online: ​TrafficProBeds.com
Traffic & Parking Control Co. (TAPCO), Brown Deer, Wisc.
Product: TAPCO’s VizMark™ Pavement Marking Enhancement illuminates pavement markings at night to increase roadway safety for all. Illuminated pavement markings help increase visibility and recognition distance to alert motorists of the correct stop and/or yield locations. When a TAPCO intelligent warning system is activated, the VizMark™ Pavement Marking Enhancement is triggered to project a light onto the pavement marking(s). The projected light helps increase the distance the pavement marking can be seen and helps motorists identify the correct stop and/or yield locations. The VizMark™ is designed to be mounted onto traffic poles (12-15 feet tall) without additional overhang into roadways. VizMark™ also shields the light beam from bleeding into opposing lanes of traffic. The design of VizMark™ allows the community to specifically choose which pavement markings are illuminated.
Online: ​TAPCOnet.com
Versilis, Laval, Quebec (Canada)
Product: The QUASH Crash Cushion is the first MASH tested anchorless non-redirective crash cushion designed to safeguard a wide range of barriers, including movable barriers. Designed for simplicity using a minimal number of components, it offers easy handling, installation and maintenance. The overall design and J-Slot technology increases safety by reducing the window of worker exposure to live traffic. Cold weather testing, a first in the industry, will also properly guide usage of such devices in below-freezing conditions.
Online: ​Versilis.com