250th Jenoptik SPECS average speed enforcement scheme “makes village a safer place”
A county councillor is celebrating the installation of average speed cameras on a busy A road in Cornwall, saying the success of his long campaign to introduce the enforcement should make his village a safer place. Cllr Peter Williams represents an area including the village Perranarworthal on the A39, which has been plagued by speeding […]
Compliance will be the key to success for new 20mph limits in Cornwall – Jenoptik
Cornwall County Council is being reminded that signs alone may not deliver the desired benefits of a proposed blanket 20 mile per hour speed limit across all eligible residential roads in the county. As a strong supporter of the ‘20’s Plenty’ and ‘Vision Zero’ campaigns, Timo Thornton, an Account Manager at Jenoptik, is delighted with […]
Lancashire County Council details new Jenoptik-supplied speed camera installation
Lancashire County Council has announced that the New Year is seeing progress resume on a major project to install average speed cameras on the county’s five highest-risk A-roads. The Safer Road Fund programme is a £7.9m investment to reduce casualties on routes identified by the Department for Transport as the county’s historically most dangerous A-roads. […]
Jenoptik says research suggests enforcement is vital to deliver 20 mph benefits
The traffic enforcement specialist Jenoptik has commented that a new study into the effectiveness of 20 mile per hour limits proves that it takes more changing signs to ensure the lower limits deliver what they are designed to do. Analysis of three years’ data by Queen’s University Belfast concluded that introducing a city centre 20 […]
Enforcement of M4 50mph scheme starts today
The Welsh Government is warning motorists exceeding the 50mph speed limits between junctions 24-28 on the M4 that they could be fined from today. This is the final stage of a phased approach that the Welsh Government has taken to improve air quality on some of the most polluted roads across Wales, as well as […]
Plymouth’s road safety enhanced by new Jenoptik speed camera installations
There’s a major change in the thinking behind getting people to stick to 20 mile per hour speed limits as a city turns from engineering solutions to technology. Traditionally the thinking among traffic engineers and the police is that 20 mph-limit roads should be managed using interventions such as speed humps and traffic islands, but […]
Project EDWARD video promotes average speed enforcement for road safety
A new video has been released highlighting the value of average speed cameras in making our roads safer. Timed to coincide with Project EDWARD week (Every Day Without a Road Death), the video explains how traffic has been calmed in Bedford by reducing speed limits and backing up those reductions by using average speed cameras […]
Safer and greener roadworks improved by enhanced Jenoptik enforcement solution
The traffic enforcement specialist Jenoptik has developed a series of enhancements to its temporary speed camera enforcement which means more sites can be monitored through an innovative, environmentally friendly power solution. In the last 20 years, Jenoptik has delivered 500 Temporary Automated Speed Cameras At Roadworks (TASCAR) schemes which use its SPECS average speed cameras […]
Jenoptik Average Speed solution gets positive press coverage
It seems the days of mainstream journalists declaring speed cameras as “a war on motorists” are ending, with more positive coverage of the technology in newspapers. The latest example is the Shropshire Star which is backing a campaign for more road safety enforcement in the county by pointing to the success of a Jenoptik scheme […]
Jenoptik Yellow Box enforcement solution demonstrated at Traffex
Visitors to Traffex at Birmingham’s NEC this week will be able to try out for themselves a traffic monitoring solution for yellow box and other civil traffic infringement enforcement. The Jenoptik stand will feature an area marked like a yellow box, and as people step into it, a screen beside them will show how the […]
