SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR THE STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS OF THE SAFETY CAMERA PROGRAM IN VICTORIA

The objective of this project was to provide a scientific base for the development of a safety camera strategy that will: maximise the road safety benefit of the safety camera program, and continue to build on the positive outcomes achieved by enforcement programs in Victoria over the last ten years. A review of previous evaluation research concerning Victorian, interstate and international automated enforcement programs was conducted. The review concentrated on the way in which this research can inform the future use of new and existing safety camera technologies in Victoria. This report provides a valuable scientific base for developing a strategy for the future directions of the safety camera program, but the report is not that strategy. The limited information available about the effects of the new technologies, and recent changes to the mobile speed camera operations, precludes that step from a scientific point of view. (a)