Where automation helps, and where it has to stop
Automated tools are good at narrowing a large amount of roadway activity down to the events worth looking at. They are not the right thing to hand a decision to.
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Working with the cameras an agency already operates
Replacing a camera network to start a safety program is rarely necessary and rarely affordable. What matters is what the existing infrastructure can actually support.
Why validation is a separate step from detection
Detecting that something happened and establishing what it was are different problems. Collapsing them is how programs end up defending single observations.
What Makes an Intersection “Dangerous”?
How data can help communities move beyond assumptions and identify recurring patterns of risk.
Who owns the corridor? Mapping responsibility before technology
A single mile or kilometre of road can involve a municipality, a transit organization, a police service and a contractor. A program has to fit all of them at once.
What a reviewable evidence record actually contains
A reviewer should not be assembling a case out of four separate systems. Here is what arrives in one place instead.
Start With the Behaviour, Not the Camera
Why effective roadway safety programs should begin with a clearly defined problem rather than a technology purchase.
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