Dust Detection

Dust Detection sign
6/11/2021

Dust detection system ready for action this monsoon season

Monsoon Awareness Week starts next week and ADOT is ready for when the dust swirls.
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Dust Detection
Dust Storms
I-10 Interstate 10
AMS-Safety
X-band Radar 3 Long Range Dust Detection Sensor
11/4/2020

Dust detection and warning system tracks its first season

Though 2020 had a 'nonsoon,' it did give us a good trial for our innovative new dust detection and warning system on Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson.
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Blowing Dust
Dust Detection
dust detection system
Dust Storms
I-10
Arizona Management System (AMS)
AMS-Safety
Variable speed limit corridor sign
6/18/2020

New for Monsoon 2020: When dust kicks up, speed limit goes down

Interstate 10 drivers between Eloy and Picacho Peak should expect something very different this summer when storms hit: reduced speed limits, speed feedback signs and new overhead boards that display urgent safety messages.
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Monsoon
Dust Detection
Blowing Dust
Safety
Interstate 10
I-10
6/15/2020

Monsoon Awareness Week brings reminder to “Pull Aside, Stay Alive”

Director FY 2018 accomplishment list
7/23/2019

From the Director: Accomplishing the 'to do' list

With fiscal year 2019 now behind us, ADOT Director John Halikowski talks about what the agency has crossed off it's to-do list.
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From the Director
Construction
South Mountain Freeway
Focus on Driving
Dust Detection
Arizona Management System (AMS)
Dust detection sign from 1976
7/8/2019

Driving Safety Home: Agency has long history of dust storm safety efforts

Building on efforts across the decades, we’re working on a dust detection and warning system on I-10 near the community of Picacho.
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Dust Detection
Dust Storms
Blowing Dust
Dust detection system
4/16/2019

Dawn of a new approach to dust storm safety

In addition to the work on I-10 and SR 87 near Eloy, we are also installing a first-in-the-state dust detection system.
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Dust Detection
New westbound lanes of I-10 open near Eloy.
12/6/2018

As widening project advances near Eloy, westbound I-10 moves to new lanes

The shift comes almost a year to the day since we began clearing and grubbing to make room for a new, wider stretch of I-10, with three lanes in each direction.
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Dust Detection
I-10
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