Abstract
Every year, traffic accidents leave millions of people dead and injured worldwide. Speeding is one of the factors that most contribute to accident severity. The implementation of electronic road speed control equipment promotes a reduction in traffic accidents and their effects. Despite the effectiveness of those devices, some drivers have the habit of braking before and accelerating after checkpoints. A possible solution for the problem of that speeding-up effect and its consequences may be through controlling the average speed. The objective of this work is to verify the behavior of vehicle drivers regarding the average speed between control points when subjected to educational actions. For this, two educational actions were applied to sections of three highways of the Federal District, Brazil. The first action warned vehicle drivers that there was equipment on the highway for monitoring average speed between checkpoints and the second action was the sending of correspondence to vehicle owners who still traveled above the tolerated average speed, after the first educational action. The results of the second educational action indicated very little variation in the average speed when compared with the data of the first educational action.
Highlights
Every year around 1.2 million people die and millions of others are injured or incapacitated as result of crashes on public roads, especially in low and middle-income countries (WHO, 2008)
Intelligent Transport Systems can make their own contribution by improving traf(ic safety and for that reason they deserve a privileged status in the vision of Sustainable Safety (Wegman and Goldenbeld, 2006)
Speeding control based on average speed measurement could be an effective tool for obtaining greater driver compliance with the speed limits established for road safety reasons
Summary
Every year around 1.2 million people die and millions of others are injured or incapacitated as result of crashes on public roads, especially in low and middle-income countries (WHO, 2008). Electronic speed surveillance can be de(ined as the use of electronic means as one of the elements for controlling compliance with the speed limit rules for vehicular traf(ic (Gold, 2003). It is one of the means used to control the established limits and a valuable instrument for reducing the number and above all the severity of accidents. More speci(ically, it seeks to analyze drivers’ behavior in regard to average speed after a traf(ic education campaign and a noti(ication sent to drivers’ residences
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