Enforcement

MarketsandMarkets’ latest report, Road Safety Market by Types (Highways and Bridges Safety, Urban Roads Safety and Tunnels Safety) & Systems (Red Light Enforcement, Speed Limit Enforcement, Bus Lane Enforcement, Communication, Incident Detection) - Worldwide Market Forecast (2014-2019) claims that major driving factors responsible for the growth of the market are the constant need for road safety and public security, new infrastructural development, and traffic congestion and longer commuting. The significa

As part of its support for the European target of halving road deaths by 2020, Tispol will use its annual Conference in Manchester on 6 and 7 October to call for better protection of vulnerable road users, with greater efforts to rid Europe’s roads of the most dangerous drivers. Senior police officers, academics, policy makers and other road safety professionals will consider a range of specific issues during the two-day conference, including: Safer driving in later life; Fatigue in emergency service dr

Humberside Police has admitted to hiding cameras in farm vehicles in a bid to catch speeding bikers on a high casualty rural road in East Yorkshire, despite advice from the Government that ‘vehicles from which mobile speed cameras can be deployed should be liveried and clearly identifiable as an enforcement vehicle’. Humberside Police admitted go the Daily Mail it had employed the new tactics as part of an ongoing aim to reduce the number of motorcyclists killed or seriously injured on the B1253 in East

The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission (DRJTBC) has awarded TransCore a US$24.9 million multi-year design-build-maintain contract for a complete overhaul of the agency’s toll collection system infrastructure. The modernisation project will include virtually every aspect of the agency’s toll system: manual cash collections, conventional toll-lane E-ZPass transactions, highway-speed open-road tolling, and future all-electronic tolling at the Scudder Falls replacement bridge.

Portsmouth City Council in the UK has awarded Videalert a contract to deploy its hosted civil enforcement platform that does not require any hardware or software to be installed on customer premises. The Department for Transport (DfT) Manufacturer Certified hosted solution will enable the council to rapidly introduce unattended enforcement at a number of bus lane locations in the city to reduce the high incidence of contraventions currently committed by motorists and enable the provision of an even bette

Mobile Visual Information Systems (MVIS) and Bartco UK have partnered on the creation of a journey time solution (JTS) for Bam Morgan Sindall Joint Venture (BMJV) and Costain, contracted by Highways England. The JTS comprises 157 A and C portable VMS, manufactured in the UK by Bartco UK, along with 50 Vysionics Vector integrated ANPR cameras and MVIS’ Web Studio sign management system. It forms part of a new customer experience pilot project on the M1 corridor, which incorporates smart motorway roadworks

Sensys Gatso Group's North American operations, Gatso USA, has been operating the City of Abington’s photo enforcement program for one year and has just received an extension to the contract for an additional two years.

Kapsch TrafficCom North America has introduced a new suite of commercial vehicle enforcement (CVE) solutions that it claims can help maximise state enforcement resources, improve vehicle compliance, and increase roadway safety. The new Kapsch CVE solutions suite is based on an ‘identify, assess, and intervene’ philosophy that utilises video and other sensor technologies to provide government agencies with information to help target enforcement. The modular solutions include 24/7/365 truck screening;

The Sensys Gatso Group, which began supplying in-vehicle speed enforcement systems to France in 2013, has received an additional order valued at US$826,000 from a French customer. According to Sensys Gatso, the use of in-vehicle speed enforcement systems has proven to be an effective measure to reduce road casualties. The order is expected to be delivered before the end of the year. “I am very encouraged by this order that follows on the great success our customer have had with the in-vehicle system i

The Sturt Highway, an important road link between Sydney and Adelaide, will become the fourth stretch of South Australian road to implement average speed cameras when the system is activated on 14 September. The cameras calculate the average speed of a vehicle between two points, as well as the vehicle’s actual speed at each camera location. Average speed cameras have been operating on Dukes Highway and Port Wakefield Road since July last year and on Victor Harbour Road since June this year. Two more