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Traffic Enforcement in Africa
Policy Guidelines for Governments
Philip Wijers Director Government Affairs
Sensys Gatso Group – Traffic Enforcement
Chair Road Safety Enforcement Sub-Committee
International Road Federation
1. Background and Introduction
2. Enforcement related objectives
3. Essential preconditions
4. The automated enforcement chain
5. Complexities
6. Bottlenecks and solutions
7. Case study France
8. Public Private Partnerships in automated traffic enforcement
9. Recommendations
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Background and Introduction
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• Economic development
• Growing motorized mobility
• Expanding and upgraded infrastructure
• Intra-urban congestion
• Speeds increase
• Rise in road safety victims
• WHO: Road safety damage to GNP up to 5% in some LMICs
• Key factors: speed and lacking safety features
• Required: politically driven Road Safety strategy
• 3Es: Engineering (infra and vehicles), Education & Enforcement
Background and Introduction
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Issues with manual enforcement
• Labour intensive, thus costly
• Limited in intensity, time and location
• Road safety requires ubiquitous and 24/7/365 approach
• Use valuable police resources for ‘non-automatable’ enforcement tasks
• Reduce ‘fine leakage’ and restoring enforcement integrity (IRF Webinar)
• Fine revenue to revert to national, regional or local government
• Transition to automated enforcement challenging
• Avoid cash transactions for violations
• Improve secondary controls: vehicle/driving license, road tax, PMVI, insurance
Background and Introduction Enforcement focus
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Why is speed enforcement so important for road safety? Do you remember high
school physics?
Ek =½mv²
In which the kinetic energy of an object is equal to half the
mass multiplied by the squared speed of that object.
Background and Introduction Enforcement focus
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Why is speed enforcement so effective to improve road safety?
“A 1% reduction in mean speeds leads to a 2% reduction in injury accidents, a 3% reduction in serious injury accidents and a 4% reduction in deaths.” Source: Aarts, L. & van Schagen, I. (2006), based on Nilsson (1982)
Background and Introduction Enforcement focus
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o Reduce the average speed across various road types in the network
o Create an enforcement environment with a high subjective chance
of apprehension
o Avoid and counter any link with ‘revenue generation’ and ‘taxes’
o Actively communicate road safety benefits and results of enforcement
Enforcement related objectives
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o High level political commitment
o Suitable legal framework
o Solid vehicle owner and driving license administration
o Controlled license plate issuance, presence and readability
o Assure legal and data integrity
o Minimise court processing
o Suitable processing infrastructure
o Sufficient fine levels
o Early payment incentive, late payment penalty
o Publicity, integrity, trust and public support
Essential preconditions
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o Detect o Measure o Decide on violation o Register o Transfer & store evidence o Process evidence to ticket o Issue and send ticket o Receipt of ticket o Provide evidence upon request violator o Collect fines o Remind violating party o Court
The automated enforcement chain
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o Political
o Administrative
o Vested interests
o Legal
o Regulatory
o Operational
o Technical
o Communication, publicity & public support
Complexities
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o Political commitment through advocacy
o Update legal framework
o Move from criminal to administrative law
o Determine owner or driver liability
o Type approval by independent organisation
o Avoid backlogs: processing, collection & judicial
o Centralisation vs. decentralisation
o Fine allocation and reinvestment
o Avoid major projects, start small scale
Bottlenecks and solutions
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o Political road safety commitment by President Chirac in 2002
o Interdepartmental Road Safety Committee (CISR) adopts comprehensive plan in 2003
o Nationwide network of ANPR-based automatic speed enforcement cameras
o Fully automated enforcement chain for driving offences based on owner liability
o Speeding curtailed by means strategic mix of fixed, mobile and in-vehicle enforcement systems
i.e. maximise subjective chance of being caught
o Centralised processing of the violations and effective fine collection process
o It is estimated that the speed reduction contributed toward saving 11,000 lives between 2003 and
2010 (IRTAD 2013).
o Continuous publicity on background, results and effects.
Case study France
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o No or very limited investment by public authority
o Joint initial action by politics, public administration and police
o Road safety plan and crash and casualty stats determine camera
locations
o Police stays in control approving all violations
o Independent type approval & annual verification of enforcement
equipment
Public Private Partnerships for Traffic Enforcement
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o No open ended revenue for private party, above cap restricted fees.
o Revenue focussed Enforcement PPPs: hard to claim long term
success
o All surplus fine revenue to be reinvested into road safety
improvements
o Maintain transparency, integrity and continued publicity on
background, programme and results of Enforcement PPPs
Public Private Partnerships for Traffic Enforcement
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Public Private Partnerships for Traffic Enforcement
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o Mobile phone as key medium
o Vehicle & drivers license database to include mobile phone number
o Immediate or quick violation notification
o Paperless processing and settlement
o Mobile, ATM or internet payment
o Enforcement reason to be included in violation
o Fine assignment to be advised upon payment
Leap-frogging opportunities for Africa
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o Create political commitment (advocacy) o Supra-ministerial approach o Comply with preconditions before implementation o Apply owner liability enforcement under administrative law o Check for weak links in the automated enforcement chain o Maximise subjective chance of apprehension o Use independent parties for type approval and calibration o Fine revenue to be used for further road safety improvements o Determine relevance IRF Public Private Partnership model for automated
enforcement o No enforcement without publicity
Policy recommendations
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o For further reading please ask or e-mail me for the full articles.
o IRF Statement of Policy and Public Private Partnership webinar available
at www.irfnews.org
o Please join the IRF Road Safety Sub-committee on Enforcement
o Contact and follow-up presentation: [email protected]
Thank you for your interest