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'''Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling''', usually abbreviated to '''MIDAS''', is a distributed network of [[traffic]] and [[weather]] [[sensor]]s which are designed to set variable message signs and advisory speed limits with little human intervention. On the M25 and [[M42 motorway]]s, the MIDAS helps set mandatory variable speed limit signs as part of the ''controlled motorway scheme''.

It is presently ([[2006]]) installed on several sections of the United Kingdom's busiest motorways, such as the congested western stretch of the [[M25 motorway]] and much of the [[M60 motorway]] around [[Manchester]] and the system has successfully reduced accidents [http://www.ha-research.co.uk/projects/index.php?id=437].