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Pilot Study of Red Light Camera in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Final rept. 1 Jan 02-31 May 02.
| 题名： | Pilot Study of Red Light Camera in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Final rept. 1 Jan 02-31 May 02. |
| 作者： | Supriyasilp-T.; Turner-D.S.; Lindly-J.K. |
| 关键词： | *Alabama-; *Traffic-safety; *Red-lights; *Cameras-.;Surveillance-; Fatalities-; Accident-rates; Signalized-intersections. |
| 摘要： | Alabama and the City of Birmingham have been identified by a national safety organization as having red light running (RLR) fatality rates among the worst in the nation. This project confirmed that problem by identifying 47,501 RLR crashes in Alabama over a nine-year period. There were 16,306 injuries and fatalities in these crashes. A RLR camera system installed in Tuscaloosa for a year found further confirmation of the problem. It detected 13,647 violations out of 2,726,061 vehicles that passed through the system (one out of every 200 vehicles). The project investigated how the RLR camera system operated, tested its accuracy, and looked at camera installation and operation at three different intersections. The camera performed within the accuracy and efficiency characteristics advertised by the vendor. All data was transmitted quickly to a Web site, where it was analyzed and stored for viewing. The research team analyzed the results of the Tuscaloosa pilot project, and made the following recommendations: An Alabama oversight committee should be formed to encourage adoption of RLR camera programs; Legislation should be pursued in Alabama to enable automated enforcement of RLR; In selecting sites for RLR cameras, the primary criteria should be crash history, violation history, opinions of local traffic engineers and law enforcement officials, and similar factors; Fine revenues collected from RLR camera citations should be distributed according to the provisions in Alabama House bill 683, introduced in the 2001 Legislature; and Where excess revenues (beyond the cost of the RLR camera program) are generated, they should be dedicated to safety and road projects in the host city. The research staff strongly encourages the adoption of automated enforcement of RLR in Alabama, as a safety countermeasure to mitigate the approximately 5,278 RLR collisions that occur each year, and to reduce the approximately 1,812 Alabama citizens injured and killed each year in these collisions. |
| 报告类型： | 科技报告 |
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