Enforcement

Survey reveals some division of views about enforcement’s future as Colin Sowman discovers. Technological advances and legislative changes pose many questions for those involved in road enforcement, ranging from the changing demands of privacy and data protection legislation to the practicalities on multi-speed enforcement. So to get the industry’s views ITS International took soundings on some of these bigger questions. In a world where many vehicles are fitted with GPS linked ‘black box’ telematics system

Exciting new weigh in motion solutions were showcased at Intertraffic. Guy Woodford reports For many years weigh-in-motion (WIM) has been used solely as a filtering mechanism to detect potentially overloaded vehicles, but introductions at Intertraffic may see that change. At the Intertraffic exhibition to unveil its Apollo range of British-manufactured axle weighbridges was Applied Traffic. The in-motion and static axle-by-axle weighing system offers slow speed and portable weighing solutions suitable for

Colin Sowman discovers how the latest systems can boost productivity and reduce conflict in parking enforcement. Parking enforcement is something of a ‘Cinderella’ service for local authorities: while necessary to keep the roads open and the traffic flowing, it is an expensive operation and can be loss-making. It is also labour intensive and parking enforcement officers are routinely verbally abused and sometimes physically attacked. Some authorities are now looking to automate parking enforcement in orde

Kustom Signals’ fourth generation hand-held video Lidar-based LaserCam 4 is powered by the ProLaser 4 for superior performance and offers greater range to target, faster acquisition time and image resolution of plates at longer distances, providing a comprehensive video record of speed enforcement and target tracking history. The ergonomic and rugged hand-held camera offers different presets for ambient lighting conditions and can be tripod mounted if required. Kustom Signals claims the camera provides i

Public safety equipment supplier Kustom Signals has released the next phase of its popular file management system, Eyewitness data vault (EDV). Eyewitness data vault lite (EDV Lite) is specifically designed for smaller installations of Kustom in-car and body-worn video systems that only utilise manual file transfer. EDV Lite offers the same intuitive look and feel as Eyewitness data vault, with an extensive list of powerful and popular features such as file intake, search, play, burn and export, as well

Counting the number of people in a vehicle has always been a manual task, but now Xerox has developed a real-time system to automate the process. Xerox has introduced an automated system that determines the number of passengers in a vehicle, enabling authorities to detect non-qualifying drivers using the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) and High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes. Traditionally HOV/HOT enforcement has entailed local police visually confirming each vehicle has the required number of occupants and chasin