Abstract
Many governments throughout the world rely heavily on traffic law enforcement programmes to modify driver behaviour and enhance road safety. There are two related functions of traffic law enforcement, apprehension and deterrence, and these are achieved through three processes: (1) the establishment of traffic laws, (2) the policing of those laws and (3) the application of penalties and sanctions to offenders. Traffic policing programmes can vary by visibility (overt or covert) and deployment methods (scheduled and non-scheduled), while sanctions can serve to constrain, deter or reform offending behaviour. This chapter will review the effectiveness of traffic law enforcement strategies from the perspective of a range of high-risk, illegal driving behaviours, including drink/drug driving, speeding, seat belt use and red-light running. Additionally, this chapter discusses how traffic police are increasingly using technology to enforce traffic laws and thus reduce crashes.KeywordsRoad SafetySeat BeltCrash RiskAccident AnalysisFatal CrashThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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