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:
  • ATSSA's New Products Rollout (NPRO) Show Area and New Products Listing
  • ATSSA NPRO Presentation Live Event for consideration of an ATSSA Innovation Award

Thank you 2023 NPRO participants! View the videos from the 2023 presentation submissions and find the Innovation Award winner and honorable mentions.

ATSSA's New Products Rollout SHOW AREA
& New Products Listing

Exhibitors who introduced new products after Jan. 1, 2020 were eligible to participate in ATSSA’s 2023 New Products Rollout Show Area and Listing. ATSSA hosted a "New Products Rollout" section on the exhibit floor where more than 3,700 Traffic Expo attendees learned about the latest innovations during show hours.

NPRO entrants will have more visibility with the additional opportunity to display their product in the New Products Rollout show area for the duration of the Expo. Exhibitors who were accepted into the NPRO show area were also included in the New Products Listing. This opportunity is limited to the first 20 eligible exhibitor applicants.

Entry fee per product: $100 ATSSA members / $1,000 non-members
Deadline to apply: Dec. 1, 2022

ATSSA NPRO Presentation live event
for Innovation Award consideration

To be considered for an ATSSA Innovation Award, the product must be entered in the NPRO Show Area and Listing (see above). From the first 20 NPRO entries, 12 entries will be eligible to be part of the ATSSA NPRO Live Presentation Event and considered for an Innovation Award.

Those selected for the Live Presentation Event will need to develop and submit a promotional video of their entered product by no later than Jan. 15. Selected videos will have their video displayed during the NPRO Live Presentation Event.
Innovation Award trophy
​The ATSSA Innovation Awards recognize a select number of innovative products displayed at Traffic Expo. Entered products are evaluated using a scoring system, then judges will deliberate to determine the overall ATSSA Innovation Award winner(s).

New for 2023: There will be two award types: one Innovation Award Winner and up to three “Honorable Mention” recipients. The Innovation Award winner will receive a trophy. The winner and honorable mentions awardees will have their promotional video played during the ATSSA’s Circle of Innovation event and have feature stories in ATSSA publications and social media, as well as press releases to hometown newspapers.

Entry fee per product: $100 ATSSA members / non-members. Video Production support is not included in this fee.
Deadline to apply: Dec. 1, 2022

2023 NPRO participants

The 2023 New Products Rollout (NPRO) included 18 products, 14 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 will vote to award selected entrants with an ATSSA Innovation Award.

Learn more and view the product videos from the companies that are participating below. Read about the four additional products submitted without videos in the blog article.
Winner - 2023 Innovation Award
Blue Vigil - Sterling, Va.
Product: The Blue Vigil ALED Portable Light is a person-portable area lighting system that mounts a high-intensity LED array on a tethered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which can be positioned up to 100 feet above a job site. The ALED puts over 8,000 square feet of light on the ground, providing nearly twice as much coverage as the towed light towers commonly used today. With the higher light positioning, the ALED eliminates dangerous glare and shadows. The ALED can remain airborne for as long as needed and designed to withstand the rigors of use in the field and on construction sites.​
Online: BlueVigil.com
Honorable Mention - 2023 Innovation Award
Hill & Smith Inc. - Columbus, Ohio
Product: The SensorZone is a robust proximity warning system with a proven track record for improving safety in the workplace. This modular, easy fit system creates an exclusion zone around machinery and equipment and in the event of a person entering this zone a triple alert is activated, providing workers on the site with situational awareness and alerting them of hazards.
Online: HillandSmith.com
Honorable Mention - 2023 Innovation Award
Horizon Signal Technologies - Reading, Pa.
Product: The Portable HAWK System is a pedestrian hybrid beacon used to warn and control traffic at un-signalized locations to help pedestrians cross a street or highway at a marked crosswalk. The HAWK crosswalk is a unique design that has proven to be safer and more effective than conventional crosswalk designs. HAWK stands for High intensity Activated crosswalk. Although the HAWK System is in use throughout the United States for permanent applications, a system had not been developed for temporary applications. Horizon Signal's Portable HAWK system modifies this proven technology to allow for fast deployment, portability and ease of use.
Online: HorizonSignal.com​
Honorable Mention - 2023 Innovation Award
PSS - Cleveland, Ohio
Product: FirstGard is a foldable traffic cone that can be deployed nearly instantly. Lightweight but heavy enough to remain stable, FirstGard is designed to be transport-friendly, folding to just 1 1/2” in height, enabling the storage of multiple units while requiring minimal storage space. This innovation in channelizing devices will provide law enforcement, fire services and emergency management teams with increased conspicuity and visibility while in conformity to the MUTCD.
Online: ​PSS-innovations.com
Alloc8 - Alloc8 Software, St. Kilda, Victoria (Canada)
Product: Alloc8 is an intelligent workforce software that helps customers efficiently manage their jobs, workers and assets by providing real-time data to enhance the decision-making process—cutting administrative time, reducing unnecessary costs and accurately keeping workers safe and paid.​
Online: Alloc8.io
Crashworthy Traffic Systems - Arcadia, Calif.
Product: Crashworthy Traffic Control patented design modifies the horizontal rails of type 1, 2 and 3 barricades and is a game changer and potential lifesaver. During a collision incident, the redesigned horizontal rails absorb and dissipate the energy of the crash, preventing the barricade from becoming a potentially lethal missile. When the barricade is struck, it collapses upon itself, remaining close to the offending vehicle, thus preventing it from entering the work zone, pedestrian area or oncoming traffic. Should the barricade disintegrate, the smaller pieces are less dangerous.​
Online: Crashworthy.net
H.B. Fuller - Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
Product: Fast 2K Deck Post Anchor is a patented structural foam for setting signs, fences and more. It is based on the technology applied by H.B. Fuller to set utility poles for over 20 years. This concrete alternative backfill solution is designed and tested to overcome common challenges of cement. The product has been evaluated by AASHTO’s NTPEP and DOT approval is available in some states. The product can be used year-round and is lightweight and compact, fast curing, versatile and needs no additives.
Online: HBFuller.com
HIL-Tech Ltd. - Oakville, Ontario (Canada)
Product: Flush-mounted in-pavement LEDline® is submersible to great depths, snow-ploughable (melts snow), solid, tough and weather/chemical resistant. As a linear safety directional guidance system, it is used on roads where key pavement or barrier markings must be seen in any weather. LEDline® self-cleans and is excellent for highlighting markings at high-collision areas; at potential wrong-way entrances for freeways, for roundabouts and railroad crossings; for highlighting crosswalks and lighting people on crosswalks; highlighting the way at complicated single-point urban interchanges (SPUIs) or left turns; for marking rush-hour crossover lanes for bridges or tunnels; and for marking critical no-passing areas where repeat accidents occur.
Online: ​LEDline.net
PSS - Cleveland, Ohio
Product: RapidRamp is a portable temporary ramp that makes installation quick and easy. RapidRamp’s lightweight sections allow for convenient transport to the job site and can be assembled in minutes by one person. The ramp’s straightforward assembly makes it easy to create accessible job sites for short-duration projects. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Public Rights-of Way Accessibility Guidelines (PROWAG) state that when a pedestrian circulation path is temporarily closed, an alternate pedestrian access route complying with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) shall be provided.​
Online: ​PSS-innovations.com
RoadVista - San Diego, Calif.
Product: The StripeMaster 3 is the latest generation retroreflectometer for quantification of roadway and airfield striping characteristics including retroreflectivity, daytime visibility and nighttime retroreflected color, providing safety for drivers, airplanes and autonomous vehicles, and to help agencies comply with the new MUTCD minimum retroreflectivity requirements for pavement markings. The StripeMaster 3 enables agencies and contractors with an all-in-one comprehensive solution for ensuring the safety of roads, highways and air strips with retroreflectivity, and nighttime color, measurements, data collection and analysis.​
Online: ​RoadVista.com
Skip-Line LLC - Adams Center, N.Y.
Product: Long-Line Automated Material Application (LLAMA) is an easy-to-use HDVO/DL-18 add-on that enables the driver/operator to maintain a consistent mil thickness while painting.
Online: SkipLine.com
Spec-Rite - Adams Center, N.Y.
Product: Spec-Rite Online enables contractors around the world to manage their operations in the most demanding markets. The web application and new SRO mobile app seamlessly aggregate data from a variety of smart equipment, empowering users to make quick decisions with real-time fleet visibility. Spec-Rite Online provides contractors and departments of transportation (DOTs) with a trusted source of truth through visual mapping and detailed custom reporting, enabling contractors and DOTs to verify completed work.
Online: Spec-Rite.io​
Valtir - Addison, Texas
Product: The Median Attenuating TREND® Terminal (MATT) is a tangent, double-sided, re-directive/gating and energy-absorbing attenuator/end terminal, for use with various longitudinal highway barriers in either unidirectional or bidirectional traffic applications – to include roadside, shoulder, median and gore installations. MATT is tested to MASH-2nd Edition (with 2020 Errata) Test Level 3 criteria and may be used in Test Level 1, Test Level 2 and Test Level 3 applications – when installed at the full Test Level 3 system length of 34' 4 1/2" [10.48 m].​
Online: Valtir.com
Ver-Mac Inc. - Quebec (Canada)
Product: Flagger-Mac Lite is a new MUTCD-compliant Automated Flagger Assistant Device (AFAD) for the U.S. market. It uses the same technology as Ver-Mac’s regular AFAD trailer, but in a more compact version. This hitch-mounted AFAD is easy to transport and quick to deploy, making it well-suited for jobs with frequent location changes. More than 300 units are already in use in Canada.
Online: ​Ver-Mac.com/en