Enforcement

Following the award in April of the contract for traffic safety cameras by the Swedish Transport Administration, Sensys Traffic has received a further procurement award decision from the Administration for new roadside cabinets for traffic safety cameras. The overall value of the contract cannot be currently quantified. The cabinets are to replace existing units, as well as for the future expansion of traffic safety cameras installed across the Swedish road network. Sensys' tender was the only one that fulf

Craiova municipality, Romania, is to invest US$2.84 million to implement a traffic management system and ease congestion in the city. Romania’s UTI Group has been awarded the contract which is funded by the EU and comprises: a traffic control system; traffic enforcement; video monitoring; communications and traffic signs.

Sensys Traffic has received a further order valued at around US$307,000 for speed and red-light enforcement to be delivered to a Latin American customer. Sensys has previously delivered enforcement systems to the same customer; this latest order follows one obtained earlier in May for a similar value. Delivery is expected to take place during the summer, and will be mainly taken from existing inventories.

German machine vision specialist Vitronic has received the Central Innovation Program for SMEs (ZIM) award 2013 for outstanding commercial success achieved through innovation. Vitronic used funding provided under ZIM, operated by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi), to develop its Lidar laser based technology system for video-based traffic surveillance at traffic light intersections. Vitronic claims Lidar overcomes the limitations of conventional technology such as radar, loops or light

Jumping a red light caused eleven per cent of traffic accidents in Abu Dhabi in the first quarter of this year, new traffic statistics show. Col Jamal Salem Al Ameri, head of public relations at Abu Dhabi Police's Traffic and Patrols Department, said accidents from jumping red lights often had serious consequences and put motorists in danger. In the first phase of a plan to enhance traffic monitoring across the emirate, state-of-the-art triple-function traffic cameras were recently installed at forty juncti

Sensys Traffic has received an order worth around US$307,000 for speed and red-light enforcement to be supplied to a customer in Latin America. Sensys has already supplied a small number of systems to the same customer, which is now expanding their enforcement installations in the region. The original order, valued at US$154,000, was received in December 2012. The customer wished to evaluate the system prior to expanding traffic monitoring in the region. At that time, Johan Frilund, CEO of Sensys Traffic s

Gatso’s T-Series Statio red light and speed enforcement solution, which uses the company’s RT3 tracking radar, has received type approval from the Netherlands Institute for metrology and technology (NMi). Exclusively designed by Gatso for traffic enforcement purposes, tracking radar has not previously been approved in the Netherlands. The RT3 enables the detection of multiple concurrent violations, including speeding, and continuously and simultaneously measures the speed and position of up to twelve vehic

In a bid to minimise accidents on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway in India, the Noida Authority is to issue a tender for an intelligent transportation system (ITS), including a control room, emergency call boxes, message signs, CCTV, speed cameras, VIDS cameras and a meteorological data system. According to officials, completion is projected within six months of the tenders being finalised and the project launched. Once in place, the system will reduce travel times and improve traffic safety and surveill

A new survey from the US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) finds that DC residents overwhelmingly support both red light and speed cameras. Although some residents expressed mixed opinions on the cameras, among those surveyed, 87 per cent support red light cameras and 76 per cent favour speed cameras. Among drivers, about 71 per cent support speed cameras, while 90 per cent of non-drivers support them, according to the survey. Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Gwen Crump cited statistic