Enforcement

Over 80 traffic monitoring systems from Jenoptik Robot, equipped with non-invasive Robot radar technology allowing accurate lane identification capability, have been delivered to the State of Qatar to enforce speed as well as red light and speed violations. The speed enforcement systems are equipped with Robot’s latest camera generation, SmartCamera IV, providing high resolution violation photos, night and day, and across the large number of lanes on Qatar’s roads, while the red light systems are housed in

In February, ITS International learned that Gatso had just begun secret trials in the US of a new camera system. From a photograph, the radical modern new design of the cabinet suggested that the interior components were likely to have been upgraded. When Timo Gatsonides, managing director of the company, agreed to an exclusive interview with news editor James Foster about what we had seen, that upgrade assumption proved to be an understatement. The Gatso T-series platform, which will be unveiled to the wo

The Swiss National Council has approved a motion by Ulrich Giezendanner regarding the misuse of speed cameras. Giezendanner is convinced that the cameras are used to rip off motorists and he believes that they do not actually increase road safety on the majority of the country’s roads. If the Swiss Council of States votes for the motion as well, the Swiss Federation will only be allowed to approve radar speed cameras on Swiss national roads in areas that are prone to accidents. It is estimated that this wou

A school bus stop arm pilot programme undertaken in Volusia County in Florida has revealed the level of drivers illegally passing stopped school buses when the stop arm is extended and children are boarding or disembarking. During a 29 day pilot period, cameras on just one of the county's 229 buses captured a total of 71 violations. The pilot results also showed that eight out of every 10 violations occurred between 1:00pm and 3:00pm with 67 per cent of the violations occurring on either Tuesday or Wednesda

SafeZone, Siemens’ approach to average speed enforcement, has been approved for deployment in the UK by the Home Office. Designed, developed and manufactured by Siemens, SafeZone is a modular system which combines ANPR technology with advanced data processing and back-office systems. It uses the company’s Sicore cameras each of which can monitor two lanes of traffic in both directions, dramatically reducing the cost of deployment and system complexity.

More than 2.3 million drivers in 18 states ran a red light in 2011, according to the first-ever Safer Roads Report 2012: Trends in Red-Light Running from the National Coalition for Safer Roads (NCSR). The report examines red-light running trends across 18 states and is designed to help raise driver awareness of the dangers of red-light running. The risks of red-light running are clear: intersection-related vehicle accidents caused more than 8,500 causalities in 2001, according to the National Highway Traffi

Austrian company Efkon has announced that its Efkon India subsidiary has won six prestigious ITS projects, worth a total of US$12.65 million, in the last five months. The Jaypee Group has awarded the company a follow-up contract for a turnkey solution for the expressway traffic management and speed enforcement systems for the Yamuna expressway in the south of New Delhi. Efkon is providing a single interface solution for all the sub-systems which enables information capture of all expressway activities and c