Enforcement

The benefits of combining enforcement and traffic management Jason Barnes considers how combining enforcement equipment with other traffic management technologies might benefit our future if only the will were really in place to do so. During the ITS World Congress in Vienna in October last year, Navtech Radar and Vysionics ITS announced a strategic partnership that would combine the expertise of Navtech in millimetre-wave wide-area surveillance...

Xerox video enforcement deters stopped-bus overtaking High resolution cameras, video motion detection and modems are being fitted to school buses in Maryland, as part of a system designed to enforce and deter stopped-bus overtaking violations. A new video enforcement system is being installed to record drivers illegally overtaking school buses in Frederick County, Maryland. It is against the law to overtake a parked school bus that is loading or...

Assessing the potential of in-vehicle enforcement systems Jason Barnes considers the social and ethical ramifications of using in-vehicle safety technologies to fulfil enforcement functions. Although policy documents often imply close correlation between enforcement, compliance and safety in part, as a counter to accusations that enforcement is rather more concerned with revenue generation there is a noticeable reluctance among policy makers and...