Below the line: Bob Lees, co-founder of Diamond Consulting Services, on why the loop detector just refuses to go away

摘要

The more strident proponents of newer and emergent detection technologies are quick to highlight what they see as the disadvantages, and hence the imminent passing, of the humble inductive loop. The more prosaic will acknowledge that loops continue to have a part to play in traffic management, falling back on the assertion that it is all a question of application. And yet year after year the loop, despite its 'inherent' disadvantages being trumpeted to the heavens, continues stubbornly on.