Building a safety program a council can defend
The hard part of a roadway safety program is rarely the technology. It is being able to explain, six months in, what changed and what information…
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Writing on what we see in the corridors we work in — how safety programs get built, where data helps, and where it does not.
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…
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What Makes an Intersection “Dangerous”?
How data can help communities move beyond assumptions and identify recurring patterns of risk.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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