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Advanced Mobile Asset Collection (AMAC) is an advanced, mobile and highly accurate automated system which measures traffic sign retroreflectivity while creating a comprehensive traffic sign inventory.

AMAC was created by DBi/Cidaut Technologies, a partnership between the United States' DBi Services and Spain's CIDAUT Foundation.

A team of engineers, physicists, psychologists and statisticians developed the AMAC system, which is composed of three components: (1) a mobile system for data and image acquisition (2) detection, performance and positioning software and (3) management and analysis software.

Integrating advanced lighting and artificial vision techniques in an instrumented vehicle operating at night at highway speeds, AMAC safely, quickly and cost effectively assesses the actual performance of traffic signs within the visual range of the human eye. AMAC objectively measures traffic sign retroreflectivity levels, luminance, position, dimensions and color. The collected data is analyzed, geo-positioned and can then be integrated into existing GIS programs or Google Earth.

AMAC was independently tested by Dr. Paul J. Carlson of the Texas Transportation Institute who stated, "We have recently tested the AMAC system and found this technology to be a viable method to meet the new MUTCD requirements."

DBi Services President and Co-Founder Paul DeAngelo commented, "AMAC is the most technologically advanced traffic sign measurement and inventory system in the world. It will clearly benefit any state, city, county or toll road authority who wants to safely and quickly prepare a robust, data driven traffic sign management and maintenance system."