Organisation: RAC Foundation
Date uploaded: 11th June 2016
Date published/launched: June 2016
Produced by Road Safety Analysis, the study has identified at least 50 stretches of road which are permanently managed by the cameras with a total length of 256 miles under observation.
The 50 stretches range in length from just a quarter of a mile over Tower Bridge in London to 99 miles on the A9 between Dunblane and Inverness in Scotland.
Many of these stretches of road are broken down into subsections (79 in total) and will be monitored by several sets of cameras.
Average speed cameras are also often used on a temporary basis to manage traffic through roadworks but these are not included in the study.
The first stretch of road to become permanently managed by average speed cameras was on the A6514 Ring Road in Nottingham back in 2000. By the end of 2015 it totalled 50, with 12 systems installed last year alone.
The next part of the work Road Safety Analysis is doing for the RAC Foundation will include an assessment of the cameras’ effectiveness in terms of reducing casualties by comparing pre-installation data with post installation data.
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