Enforcement

The road safety market size is expected to grow from US$2.35 billion in 2015 to US$3.63 billion by 2020, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.1 per cent, according to the latest report from online market research company ReportsnReports. Major factors contributing to this growth are increasing road accident/fatality rates and growing government regulations and standards for road safety across the globe. The red light enforcement solution is estimated to contribute the largest market share during

Australian DTI Group, which provides advanced surveillance systems, solutions and services to the global mobile security industry, is setting its sights on the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) sector, with a compact in-vehicle enforcement system. The system utilises high definition recording with internal and external vehicle cameras, including thermal imaging cameras and integration of automatic number plate recognition (ANPR). Data from the cameras is transmitted to a sunlight readable touch s

According to a new market research report, Road Safety Market by Solution (Red Light Enforcement, Speed Enforcement, Incident Detection Systems, Bus Lane Compliance, Automatic License Plate Recognition), by Service, by Region - Global Forecast to 2020, published by MarketsandMarkets, the size of the road safety market is estimated to grow from US$2.35 billion in 2015 to US$3.63 billion by 2020, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.1 per cent. With an increase in the number of road fatality rate, the

Provincial Traffic Officers in South Africa have been issued with new hand-held devices by the Department of Transport and Public Works as a fast, information-verifying tool that will assist enforcement. These devices have been entirely developed and tested over the past two years by the Department and will be in operation across the Western Cape; a first of its kind in South Africa.

Sensys Gatso Group has received orders for traffic safety systems valued at around US$1million from long-standing customer the Royal Oman Police. Deliveries will commence in the fourth quarter of 2015 and are planned to be finalised in the first quarter of 2016. “It is an honour to be selected by the Royal Oman Police for these orders as we are one of three suppliers in Oman. It manifests our leading position and shows on the value we bring to our customers in relation to the competition. We are looki

StarTraq and the North Yorkshire Police Traffic Bureau received a high commendation at the Prince Michael of Kent International Road Safety Awards, which recognise achievements and innovations which will improve road safety. The commendation was awarded in view of North Yorkshire Police Traffic Bureau‘s investment in mobile enforcement camera technology in conjunction with StarTraq’s back office software to deliver a system that is said to be saving lives on the roads in North Yorkshire. Following a

US research and education charity Frontier Centre for Public Policy has released Speed or Greed: Does Automated Traffic Enforcement Improve Safety or Generate Revenue?, a study on the effects of automated traffic enforcement (ATE). Report authors Hiroko Shimizu and Pierre Desrochers state that the decline of road fatalities by 58 per cent is largely due to better engineered vehicles, seat belts and other safety measures. Although there is little credible evidence, the report says some ATE supporters a

Dubai Traffic Police has released data on the number of violations recorded by the newly installed Vitronic PoliScan systems; according to an official press release, the Lidar systems documented more than 51,000 violations in the first eleven months of 2015. Dubai Traffic Police uses PoliScan to simultaneously enforce a number of different violations and the figure does not include speeding violations. Presenting the figures, director of Traffic Police Colonel Saif Muhair Al Mazroui claimed that the Vitr