Enforcement

StarTraq Audit provides authorities with an independent review of speed and red light enforcement violation patters in order to detect multiple errors or even fraud. The company receives notification of all logged offences in order that its Audit software can detect anomalies and trends. These may come as a result of an drifting calibration, erroneous recalibration or other faults and can be detected in near real-time and the notification stopped before the automated systems send out hundreds of tickets whi

The A9 Safety Group in the UK has won the CIHT John Smart Road Safety Award, for a range of interventions along more than 200km of carriageway, including the implementation of 50 SPECS3 average speed cameras, supplied by Vysionics. The A9 SPECS3 installation has been in operation since October 2014, and is already delivering impressive changes to driver behaviour. Whilst it is still too early to report on casualty analysis, key performance indicators are already demonstrating that drivers have improved the

The adaptation of machine vision to transport applications continues apace. That the machine vision industry is taking traffic installations seriously is evident by the amount of hardware and software products tailor-made for ITS applications that are now available on the market. A good example comes from US-based Gridsmart Technologies which has developed a single wire fisheye camera that provides a horizon to horizon view for use at intersections. Not only does the single camera replace four or more in a

Sensys Traffic has received an order valued at US$846,000 for traffic safety systems from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Sensys has its largest installed base, apart from Sweden, in the United Arab Emirates and has been supplying the Dubai police since 2001; this order expands the number of their traffic safety systems.

Kapsch TrafficCom’s Christoph Amlacher explains that the key to successful Electronic Vehicle Registration is to consider a deployment in its entirety — including enforcement. Electronic Vehicle Registration (EVR) shares much in common with large-scale city congestion charging, in that its benefits are numerous and obvious, and it has been a topic of lively discussion for a decade and more. Despite such manifest advantages and widespread interest, this has failed to translate into numerous large-scale deplo

Shem Oirere looks at the beneficial effect of cargo tracking. The mandatory installation of electronic cargo tracking and security (ECTS) systems in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda has helped enhance revenue collection, enforce cargo handling requirements, improved the business environment of the respective countries’ trade routes and helped cargo hauliers cut costs. This is being spearheaded by the state-owned tax collection agencies and the improved custom duty collection has not only enabled a reduction of im

New radar traffic cameras that can detect and fine motorists for tailgating will become operational on 1 July, according to a report in The National. Dubai Police has launched its annual ‘Keep a safe distance’ traffic campaign, quoting tailgating as the third-leading cause of traffic deaths. Tailgating caused 26 deaths in 2014, and 11 deaths between January and May this year. Police said the system would reduce traffic accidents and fatalities by penalising motorists who fail to observe a safe distanc

Single-camera bi-directional speed enforcement can reduce the cost of enforcing speeding on two-way roads without repositioning the camera. Truvelo has received UK type-approval for a simultaneous bi-directional (SBD) enforcement camera, the D-Cam P digital, which can capture speeding motorist both those travelling towards and away from the camera. It is also in the process of carrying out the first installations of the D-Cam P in the UK.

Sensys Traffic is building on its success in the Middle East, with orders for traffic safety systems from Ras Al Khaimah and Dubai Police in the United Arab Emirates. The order from Ras Al Khaimah is worth US$1.2 million, while the Dubai order is valued at US$846,000. Sensys has been supplying Dubai Police since 2001 and says the order from Ras Al Khaimah is also strategically important, partly because it is a new customer, but chiefly because Ras Al Khaimah has for some time been working with another su

John Kendall considers the public’s awareness of the benefits of ITS. While the results of developing ITS technology may be clear to readers of ITS International, there is far less evidence that drivers have any appreciation of what the technology is doing for them. So how aware are drivers of the developments that are designed to make their journeys less congested and safer?