Assessment of the potential for enhanced police enforcement

Liikennevalvonnan kehittaminen. Lahtokohdat, mahdollisuudet ja edellytykset

The object of this study was to investigate how the volume of traffic enforcement, selectivity, methods and technology should be developed during this decade in order to progress effectively towards the traffic safety goal set for 2010 of not more than 250 fatalities annually. This pre-study will address mainly the safety benefits expected to be achieved by means of enforcement of speeding, drink-driving, non-use of safety devices and violation of traffic signals. Concerning automated surveillance equipment, the focus is on speeding, close-following and overtaking violations. In-vehicle enforcement and monitoring systems such as speed limiters and other vehicle control and driver assistance system are beyond the scope of this study. The calculations carried out suggest that by developing and intensifying the use of speed cameras, there is a potential for decreasing road traffic fatalities from 37 to 64. Intensifying the use of safety belts and enforcement of drink-driving could each drop the incidence by over 10 fatalities annually. Two scenarios were drawn up concerning enforcement measures needed to decrease the incidence by 50 and 25 fatalities annually. The use of machine vision and wireless data transmission is becoming more widespread among technical surveillance equipment. Manufacturers provide a solution for practically all conventional enforcement needs such as enforcement of red light violations, speed enforcement, turning violations, use of bus lanes and monitoring of stolen vehicles by means of automatic license plate identification. Automatic fixed installations are appropriate for speed enforcement on the main road network. It is advisable to use image pattern recognition in speed enforcement, and the monitoring sites need to have close enough spacing. The computer should be able to transmit the recorded speed violation data automatically to the office system. The price of the portable speed surveillance equipment is about the same as the cost of one fixed surveillance line (10 poles and 1 camera). It needs to be manned, but it makes more versatile enforcement possible, since the unit frees human resources to other enforcement, and the location of portable units can be selected quite freely. The recording of violations and the notification of violations should be automated as far as possible. This report is available at http://www.mintc.fi or http://www.mintc.fi/oliver/upl889-49_2004.pdf

• Record URL:
  http://www.mintc.fi/oliver/upl889-49_2004.pdf
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9517237359
• Corporate Authors:

  FINNRA Finnish Road Administration, Ministry of the Interior

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• Authors:
  • RATHMAYER, R
  • KALLBERG, V -
  • KOSKINEN, K
  • MAKINEN, T
  • VIITANEN, J
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• Finnish

Media Info

• Pagination: 104p
• Serial:
  • PUBLICATIONS OF THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
  • Issue Number: 49
  • Publisher: MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS FINLAND
  • ISSN: 0783-2680

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic vehicle identification; Automation; Drunk driving; Equipment; Law enforcement; Speed; Surveillance; Traffic control; Traffic safety; Vehicle spacing; Video cameras
• Geographic Terms: Finland
• ITRD Terms: 3882: Automatic; 8767: Automatic vehicle identification; 6750: Camera; 2231: Drunkenness; 1534: Enforcement (law); 3674: Equipment; 8035: Finland; 1665: Safety; 5408: Speed; 9101: Surveillance; 654: Traffic control; 694: Vehicle spacing
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Security and Emergencies; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01015265
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: TRL
• ISBN: 951-723-735-9
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jan 12 2006 8:54AM