News tagged with traffic camera

Speed cameras in urban areas save millions in cash

The deployment of speed cameras in urban areas saves vast amounts of money as well as lives, reveals a two year financial analysis, published online in Injury Prevention.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Red-light cameras critical to public safety, traffic researcher finds

As automated traffic monitoring systems such as red light cameras keep a law enforcement "eye" on the streets across the country, many drivers accuse city governments of installing the monitors as a way to generate revenue. ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Without driver or map, vans go from Italy to China

Across Eastern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Gobi Desert - it certainly was a long way to go without getting lost.

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 28, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 9

Driver drowsiness detected by Eyetracker

Car drivers must be able to react quickly to hazards on the road at all times. Dashboard-mounted cameras help keep drivers alert. At the VISION trade fair in Stuttgart, Germany, researchers are presenting ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Consistent evidence: Speed cameras do reduce injuries and deaths

Placing speed cameras on roads reduces the number of road traffic injuries and deaths, concludes a team of researchers from The University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia. Their findings are published this month in ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Plan to use satellites to monitor British motorists

(PhysOrg.com) -- Britain may soon be using global positioning satellites and advanced speed cameras with number plate recognition technology to track speeding motorists, and according to a report released ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 28 | with audio podcast report

Ground Control to Major Tom: London ISA Catches Speeders

An Intelligent Speed Adaption (ISA) system is being tested by the London for Transport (TfL). The eye-in-the-sky ISA system relies on a computer installed in the vehicle with pre-loaded speed limit road data ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 4 weblog

Ticket's in the mail: Red-light cameras questioned

(AP) -- Minutes after Neel Manglik illegally turned right on a red light in the Des Moines suburb of Clive, a video popped up on a computer at an office park outside Scottsdale, Ariz.

Technology / Other

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0