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A traffic enforcement camera (also a red light camera, speed camera, road safety camera, bus lane camera, depending on use) is a camera which may be mounted beside or over a road or installed in an enforcement vehicle to detect motoring offenses, including speeding, vehicles going through a red traffic light, vehicles going through a toll booth ...
Gatso speed camera. Speed limits are enforced on most public roadways by authorities, with the purpose to improve driver compliance with speed limits.Methods used include roadside speed traps set up and operated by the police and automated roadside 'speed camera' systems, which may incorporate the use of an automatic number plate recognition system. [1]
A mobile speed camera is speed limit enforcement device used in Australia, France, India, and the United Kingdom [1] to refer to a road vehicle fitted with speed camera equipment which can park at the side of the road, or on overbridges to monitor the speed of passing traffic. Mobile speed cameras come in many shapes, sizes and colour schemes.
SPECS is an average speed measuring speed camera system introduced in 1999. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is one of the systems used for speed limit enforcement in the United Kingdom . SPECS was originally manufactured by Speed Check Services Limited, from which it takes its name.
In June 2010 it was announced that 9 of Somerset's 26 fixed speed cameras were to be switched off. [81] In July 2010, the BBC announced that the Devon and Cornwall Safety Camera Partnership was to be wound up, and that no speed camera would be operated in the South West from the following year unless funding was provided by the government. [82]
A radar speed gun, also known as a radar gun, speed gun, or speed trap gun, is a device used to measure the speed of moving objects. It is commonly used by police to check the speed of moving vehicles while conducting traffic enforcement , and in professional sports to measure speeds such as those of baseball pitches , [ 1 ] tennis serves , and ...
A high-speed camera is a device capable of capturing moving images with exposures of less than 1 / 1 000 second or frame rates in excess of 250 frames per second. [1] It is used for recording fast-moving objects as photographic images onto a storage medium.
Gatso speed camera. Gatso is the brand that Gatsometer BV (now known as Sensys Gatso Group when Sensys acquired Gatso in 2015 [1]) use on their speed cameras and red light cameras. The most commonly encountered Gatso speed cameras emit radar beams to measure the speed of a passing vehicle. If it is travelling above the preset trigger speed, one ...