Road Safety
3M Road Safety
At 3M we are dedicated to improving transportation infrastructure and mobility so motorists can arrive at their destinations safely. Our high performance materials combine with innovative systems and services to help you bring the best roadways systems into reality. For over 80 years, we have shared in your mission to make our roadway safer.
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3M is on a mission to reduce fatalities on highways, city streets and intersections, and in construction zones. We are working toward zero deaths with innovations like wet reflective pavement markings and more visible road signs.
Applications Dedicated to Safety
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Traffic Signs
Whether it’s retroreflective sign sheeting for road signs, guide signs or delineation devices, 3M sign sheeting meets the requirements of today’s complex and demanding traffic environment.
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Digital Traffic Sign Printing
Our digital sign printing solutions give you quick, on-demand prints for custom traffic signs backed by our finest 3M™ MCS™ Warranty.
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Road Markings
For superior retroreflectivity in both dry and wet conditions, we combined durable beads with multiple refractive index beads for pavement-marking products that provide excellent visibility to drivers.
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Temporary Traffic Control
Provide enhanced visibility and improved safety for temporary traffic control in construction work zones with 3M’s full line of high-performance materials.
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Solutions for Urban Safety
Cities are growing faster than ever and new modes of transportation are here, posing safety and mobility challenges to cities.
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Traffic Delineators
Whether it’s a construction project or permanent solution using median barriers or guard rails, you can help ensure drivers can navigate safely with a 3M™ Diamond Grade™ Linear Delineation System.
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Additional Transportation Safety Solutions
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Efficiently identify stolen license plates, vehicles and outstanding vehicular violations with license plate readers and reflective license plates that can be read in all conditions.
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Maximize visibility with 3M reflective tape and conspicuity markings. Maximize the visibility of trucks and trailers, school buses, railcars and and emergency vehicles.
Products for Road Safety
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3M offers a variety of products for road safety and roadway applications. Visit our catalog pages to explore by product category.
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Safer roads are a product of collaboration
Working together, we can help make their roadways safer. Whether it’s working for improved specifications, partnering with transportation organizations or simply understanding issues on a local level, 3M is your ally in safer roads.
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Service and support at your side
We deliver support to our customers through a combination of global presence and local responsiveness. It’s our recipe for ensuring you have the support you need whenever and wherever you need it.
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A family of products dedicated to safety
Keeping drivers safe in your community is not the result of a single product; it’s the result of a full suite of solutions that work in harmony to offer clear and consistent visual cues for navigation and traffic control.
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Education drives safer roads
With the science and technology behind transportation safety always changing, we keep you aware of the various solutions via webinar and articles, during one-to-one meetings, at our innovation centers and through innovative programs like the Transportation Safety Roadshow.
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Short-term guidance on 'new normal' vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
3M Transportation Safety Division can help you prepare for short-term, temporary guidance of vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian traffic to create traffic control patterns with materials and devices familiar to all road users.
Featured Products and Promotions
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High Performance Sheeting
Help improve road safety with highly visible traffic signs giving drivers visual cues that provide critical information—particularly at night, dawn and dusk. Set your standards high with Type XI Sheeting.
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Wet Retroreflective MarkingsVisibility when it counts -- help drivers navigate dark and rainy roads with our continuous wet retroreflective pavement markings.
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Road Safety Academy
We’re here to help provide the education you need to do your job, creating safe transportation for motorist and other road users. We’ve put together a set of on-demand courses to help educate you on 3M Road Safety products and services.
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